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2 Thessalonians 2:4

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2:4 He 1  opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat 2  in God’s temple, displaying himself as God. 3 

1 tn Grk “the one who opposes,” describing the figure in v. 3. A new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the personal pronoun (“he”) and translating the participle ἀντικείμενος (antikeimeno") as a finite verb.

2 sn Allusions to Isa 14:13-14; Dan 11:36; Ezek 28:2-9 respectively.

3 tn Grk “that he is God.”



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