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The Man of Lawlessness

Mere Fidelity

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The Importance of the Timeline in Jesus Teaching

The language of destruction from heaven and the man of lawlessness is picking up on themes related to that more immediate horizon within Jesus teaching. Paul disambiguates the day of the Lord, he actually substantively alters how it's understood or he's got his own distinctive use of it. But if it's the farther horizon, what should we make of takkatacon, the restraining? It's weird in the Greek because he actually gives it a definite article. Whether we think that this is, and maybe what sort of account we give of the day of Lord and the horizon does matter for this.

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