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2 Thessalonians 2 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: 2 Thessalonians 1–3 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

2 Thessalonians 2

The coming and the lawless one

Verse 2:1

Greek–English Translation

Now we ask you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Coming and our gathering together to Him are coordinated subjects of the appeal. No interval between them or date for either is stated; the Lord Jesus remains the gathering’s personal destination. Reception: R05, A01.

Verse 2:2

Greek–English Translation

not to be quickly shaken from your understanding or alarmed, either by a spirit or by a word or by a letter as though from us, as if the day of the Lord is already present.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Enestēken means has come/is present, not simply is near. Spirit, word, and purported letter remain three distinct possible channels; the text’s warning is not replaced by a theory of this letter’s historical authorship. Reception: R05, A01.

Verse 2:3

Greek–English Translation

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The source’s conditional construction is unfinished; that day will not come is supplied in English from 2:2 to make its implied main clause intelligible. Rebellion renders apostasia; lawlessness renders G’s anomia. Neither a modern political figure nor a date is inserted. Reception: R05, A01, I01.

Verse 2:4

Greek–English Translation

who opposes and exalts himself above everything called god or an object of worship, so that he takes his seat in God’s sanctuary, displaying himself as being God.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Naos is sanctuary, the sacred temple interior term. The place and the self-exalting figure are not identified beyond what the passage says. The final claim to be God remains the figure’s claim; the translation does not endorse it. Reception: R05, A01, I01.

Verse 2:5

Greek–English Translation

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you these things?

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The singular I interrupts the surrounding plural we. The imperfect used to tell recalls teaching during Paul’s presence without reconstructing the unrecorded details of that instruction. Reception: R05, A01.

Verse 2:6

Greek–English Translation

And now you know what restrains, so that he may be revealed in his own time.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: What restrains is neuter; 2:7 changes to the masculine one who restrains. Both forms are retained without naming the restraining force or person. Reception: R06, A01.

Verse 2:7

Greek–English Translation

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only, the one who now restrains does so until he is out of the way.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Does so supplies a minimal verb for the compressed construction. Ek mesou genētai says that the restrainer comes to be out of the midst; out of the way keeps the idiom without asserting who removes him. This he is not capitalized because the referent is unidentified. Reception: R06, A01.

Verse 2:8

Greek–English Translation

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of His mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of His coming.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: G explicitly has Lord Jesus and the verb kill. Pneuma of His mouth is rendered breath in this image; the clause is not changed into a separate named Spirit as its grammatical subject. Reception: R06, A01, I02.

Verse 2:9

Greek–English Translation

His coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: His refers back to the lawless one, not Jesus. Wonders of falsehood retains the genitive, which may characterize their deceptive nature, purpose, or claimed validation. Reception: R06, A01, I02.

Verse 2:10

Greek–English Translation

and with every deception of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Because links deception with refusal of the love of the truth. The salvation clause states the purpose of receiving that truth; perishing remains a description of people, not a new name for the lawless one. Reception: R06, A01, I02.

Verse 2:11

Greek–English Translation

And for this reason God sends them a working of delusion, so that they believe the falsehood,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The source makes God the subject of sends, in the present tense. Working of delusion renders energeian planēs; the translation does not weaken the statement to mere permission or add a philosophical explanation. Reception: R06, A01, I02.

Verse 2:12

Greek–English Translation

in order that all who did not believe the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness may be judged.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Judged renders krithōsin without substituting a verb meaning merely deceived. Unbelief in truth and pleasure in unrighteousness are coordinated descriptions; all applies to this specified group. Reception: R06, A01, I02.

Stand firm in what was handed on

Verse 2:13

Greek–English Translation

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits for salvation in sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: G reads aparchēn, firstfruits, singular collective, not from the beginning. The agricultural image is retained. Sanctification of/by the Spirit and faith of/in the truth express the two coordinated phrases; by and in are contextual English choices. Reception: R07.

Verse 2:14

Greek–English Translation

To this He called you through our gospel, for obtaining the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The relative to this resumes the preceding salvation-call complex. Through our gospel identifies the means of calling; obtaining the glory keeps the stated goal rather than reducing it to hearing about glory. Reception: R07.

Text [G]: NA28 reads εἰς ὃ [καὶ] ἐκάλεσεν in brackets (SBLGNT omits); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "To this He also called you".[G]R07

Verse 2:15

Greek–English Translation

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, whether by a word or by a letter from us.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: Traditions renders paradoseis, things handed on. The appeal names both a spoken word and a letter from us; neither channel is removed, and later Church claims remain attributed reception. Reception: R08.

Verse 2:16

Greek–English Translation

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal encouragement and good hope in grace,

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The Son precedes God our Father in the prayer. The singular loved and gave most immediately accompany the Father; the joint invocation continues into 2:17 without rearranging the names. Reception: R09.

Verse 2:17

Greek–English Translation

encourage your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Textual and Reception Notes

Text [G]: The singular prayer verbs encourage and establish follow the coordinated divine invocation. Hearts is explicit with encourage and understood again with establish; work precedes word in the selected source. Reception: R09.