2 Thessalonians 2:9

For the coming of that evil One, is the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

In Context

8then at length will that evil One be revealed; whom our Lord Jesus will consume by the breath of his mouth, and will bring to naught by the visibility of his advent.

10and with all the deceptiveness of iniquity, in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, by which they might have life.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:24For there will arise false Messiahs, and mendacious prophets; who will exhibit great signs, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Luke 11:25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept clean and set in order.

John 8:41But ye do the works of your father. They say to him: We are not the offspring of whoredom; we have one Father, God.

Acts 8:9And there was a certain man there, whose name was Simon, who had resided in that city a long time, and who seduced the people of the Samaritans by his sorceries, magnifying himself, and saying, I am a great personage.

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13

Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →

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