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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Thessalonians 2:12

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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they all . . . damned--rather as Greek, "that all," &c. He here states the general proposition which applies specially to Antichrist's adherents. Not all in the Church of Rome, or other anti-Christian systems, shall be damned, but only "all who believed not the truth," when offered to them, "but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (Rom 1:32; Rom 2:8). Love of unrighteousness being the great obstacle to believing the truth.
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