2 Thessalonians 2:6

and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

In Context

5Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?

7for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now [will hinder] — till he may be out of the way,

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

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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