The apostle is very careful to hinder the spreading of an error into which some among them had fallen concerning the coming of Christ, as being very near, 2 Thess. 2:1–3.

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 thinking that it was near at hand,—that Christ was just ready to appear and come to judgment.

Apostasy Foretold. (a. d. 52.) 3—For that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,…

Here observe, I. The consolation the Thessalonians might take against the terrors of this apostasy, 2 Thess. 2:13–14. For they were chosen to salvation, and called to the obtaining of glory.

In these words we have the apostle’s earnest prayer for them, in which observe, I. To whom he prays: Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father.