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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Car le mystère de l'iniquité agit déjà; il faut seulement que celui qui le retient encore ait disparu.

KJV

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    l others. And in this way all the wicked who have gone before are signs of Anti-christ, according to 2 Thess. 2:7, "For the mystery of iniquity already worketh." Reply to Objection 1: The devil and Anti-christ are not two heads, but one; since Anti-christ is called the head, inas…
  • Tertullian + Minucius Felix + Origen

    ANF04. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second

    -15 4:3 4:3-5 4:13-15 4:13-17 4:15-16 4:16 4:16-17 4:17 5:4-5 5:5 5:14 5:14 5:14 5:16 5:17 5:21 5:23 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 2:2 2:3-4 2:3-4 2:4 2:6-10 2:9 2:10-12 2:15 2:15 3:6 3:6 3:6 3:11 3:14-15 1 Timothy 1:13 1:15 1:15 1:16 1:19 1:20 1:20 2:1-2 2:2 2:7 2:11-12 2:14 3:1-2 3:1-…
  • Hippolytus + Cyprian + Caius + Novatian

    ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

    1 2:23 3:1-4 3:1-4 3:5-6 3:16 3:16 4:2 4:2 1 Thessalonians 2:12 4:3 4:6 4:12 4:13 4:13-14 4:16 5:2-3 2 Thessalonians 2:1-11 2:8 2:10 2:10-12 2:11 3:2 3:6 3:6 3:6 3:8 3:14-15 1 Timothy 1:3 1:13 1:17 2:5 2:5 2:9-10 2:9-10 2:11-14 3:6 4:1 4:1-3 4:1-5 4:3 4:3-5 4:4 4:4-5 4:12 4:17 5:…

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