2 Tessalonicenses 2

2 Tessalonicenses 2:2

Calvin summarizes what our attitude should be in the meantime - This has been added, that the faithful might be always watching, and not promise tomorrow to themselves...(Peter in 2Pe 3:10) now shakes off our sleepiness, so that we may attentively expect Christ at all times, lest we should become idle and negligent, as it is usually the case. For whence is it that flesh indulges itself except that there is no thought of the near coming of Christ? Hiebert sums up 2Th 2:2 - The natural reaction to this teaching was fear and agitation. The apostle appeals to them in the interest of the very hope of "our gathering together unto him," set forth in the first epistle (1Th 4:13-18), not to allow themselves to be shaken and troubled by this unwarranted teaching. In what follows, Paul assures them that their sufferings, severe though they were, were not to be identified with the persecutions associated with the Day of the Lord and the coming man of lawlessness. John