when he shall have come to be glorified in his saints, and wondered at in all that have believed, (for our testimony to you has been believed,) in that day.

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone,

whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;

But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;