that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

For, the secret, of lawlessness, already, is inwardly working itself, - only, until, he that restraineth at present, shall be gone, out of the midst:

and you know what hinders his throwing off the disguise at a time which he enjoys for the present.

not, that we had no just claim, but to present ourselves as a pattern, which you should imitate,