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diff --git a/8360.txt b/8360.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d13241 --- /dev/null +++ b/8360.txt @@ -0,0 +1,604 @@ +Project Gutenberg EBook The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 60: 2 Thessalonians + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS + +In this Epistle St. Paul admonishes the Thessalonians to be constant in +the faith of Christ and not to be terrified by the insinuations of false +teachers telling them that the day of judgment was near at hand, as +there must come many signs and wonders before it. He bids them to hold +firm the traditions received from him, whether by word, or by epistle, +and shews them how they may be certain of his letters by the manner he +writes. + + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 1 + +He gives thanks to God for their faith and constancy and prays for their +advancement in all good. + +1:1. Paul and Sylvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians. +In God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, + +1:2. Grace unto you: and peace from God our Father and from the Lord +Jesus Christ. + +1:3. We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, as it +is fitting, because your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of +every one of you towards each other aboundeth. + +1:4. So that we ourselves also glory in you in the churches of God, for +your patience and faith, and in all your persecutions and tribulations: +which you endure + +1:5. For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted +worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer. + +1:6. Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them +that trouble you: + +1:7. And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus +shall be revealed from heaven with the angels of his power: + +1:8. In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and +who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +1:9. Who shall suffer eternal punishment in destruction, from the face +of the Lord and from the glory of his power: + +1:10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made +wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was +believed upon you in that day. + +1:11. Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you +worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness +and the work of faith in power: + +1:12. That the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you +in him, according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 2 + +The day of the Lord is not to come till the man of sin be revealed. The +apostle's traditions are to be observed. + +2:1. And we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus +Christ and of our gathering together unto him: + +2:2. That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, +neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle as sent from us, as if the +day of the Lord were at hand. + +2:3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt +first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition + +A revolt... This revolt, or falling off, is generally understood, by the +ancient fathers, of a revolt from the Roman empire, which was first to +be destroyed, before the coming of Antichrist. It may, perhaps, be +understood also of a revolt of many nations from the Catholic Church; +which has, in part, happened already, by means of Mahomet, Luther, &c., +and it may be supposed, will be more general in the days of the +Antichrist. The man of sin... Here must be meant some particular man, +as is evident from the frequent repetition of the Greek article [ ], the +man of sin, the son of perdition, the adversary or opposer. It agrees to +the wicked and great Antichrist, who will come before the end of the +world. + +2:4. Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that +is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself +as if he were God. + +In the temple... Either that of Jerusalem which some think he will +rebuild; or in some Christian church, which he will pervert to his own +worship: as Mahomet has done by the churches of the east. + +2:5. Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these +things? + +2:6. And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his +time. + +2:7. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now +holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way. + +2:8. And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus +shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the +brightness of his coming: him + +2:9. Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and +signs and lying wonders: + +2:10. And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they +receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore +God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: + +God shall send... That is God shall suffer them to be deceived by lying +wonders, and false miracles, in punishment of their not entertaining the +love of truth. + +2:11. That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have +consented to iniquity. + +2:12. But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, +beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, +in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth: + +2:13. Whereunto also he hath called you by our gospel, unto the +purchasing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. + +2:14. Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which +you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle. + +Traditions... See here that the unwritten traditions are no less to be +received than their epistles. + +2:15. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God and our Father, who +hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope in +grace, + +2:16. Exhort your hearts and confirm you in every good work and word. + +2 Thessalonians Chapter 3 + +He begs their prayers and warns them against idleness. + +3:1. For the rest, brethren, pray for us that the word of God may run +and may be glorified, even as among you: + +May run... That is, may spread itself, and have free course. + +3:2. And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all +men have not faith. + +3:3. But God is faithful, who will strengthen and keep you from evil. + +3:4. And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things +which we command, you both do and will do. + +3:5. And the Lord direct your hearts, in the charity of God and the +patience of Christ. + +3:6. And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, +that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and +not according to the tradition which they have received of us. + +3:7. For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us. For we were not +disorderly among you. + +3:8. Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing: but in labour and +in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of +you. + +3:9. Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a +pattern unto you, to imitate us. + +3:10. For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if +any man will not work, neither let him eat. + +3:11. For we have heard there are some among you who walk disorderly: +working not at all, but curiously meddling. + +3:12. Now we charge them that are such and beseech them by the Lord +Jesus Christ that, working with silence, they would eat their own bread. + +3:13. But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing. + +3:14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man +and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. + +3:15. Yet do not esteem him as an enemy but admonish him as a brother. + +3:16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every +place. The Lord be with you all. + +3:17. The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in +every epistle. So I write. + +3:18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS, BOOK 60 *** + +*********** This file should be named 8360.txt or 8360.zip *********** + +Produced by David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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