2Thessalonians:2:8

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rwp @2Thessalonians:2:8 @{And then } (\kai tote \). Emphatic note of time , {then } when the restraining one (\ho katech “n \) is taken out of the way , then \the lawless one \ (\ho anomos \), the man of sin , the man of perdition , will be revealed . {Whom the Lord [Jesus ] shall slay } (\hon ho kurios [I ˆsous ] anelei \). Whether Jesus is genuine or not , he is meant by Lord . \Anelei \ is a late future from \anaire “\, in place of \anair ˆsei \. Paul uses strkjv @Isaiah:11:4 | (combining {by the word of his mouth } with {in breath through lips }) to picture the triumph of Christ over this adversary . It is a powerful picture how the mere breath of the Lord will destroy this arch-enemy (Milligan ). {And bring to naught by the manifestation of his coming } (\kai katarg ˆsei t ˆi epiphanei ƒi t ˆs parousias autou \). This verb \katarge “\ (\kata , argos \) to render useless , rare in ancient Greek , appears 25 times in Paul and has a variety of renderings . In the papyri it has a weakened sense of hinder . It will be a grand fiasco , this advent of the man of sin . Paul here uses both \epiphaneia \ (\epiphany \, elsewhere in N .T . in the Pastorals , familiar to the Greek mind for a visit of a god ) and \parousia \ (more familiar to the Jewish mind , but common in the papyri ) of the second coming of Christ . "The apparition of Jesus heralds his doom " (Moffatt ). The mere appearance of Christ destroys the adversary (Vincent ).

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