2 THESSALONIANS 2:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?”
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? — the instruction is not novel; Paul had previously taught them concerning the end-times. Recall (mnēmoneuo) of prior teaching is the test of authenticity.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 2:5
Do you see that it is necessary continually to say the same things, and to enlarge upon them in the same words? For behold, they heard him saying these things when present, and again they had need to be reminded of them. For as when they had heard concerning afflictions, “For verily,” he says, “when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction” 1 Thessalonians 3:4; they nevertheless forgot it, and he confirms them again by letters; so also having…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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