who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.

Do you not remember that while[a] we were still with you, we were saying these things to you? And you know that which restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:5 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as temporal