2nd Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 5 Holy Bible
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
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Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
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Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?
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Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
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Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
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Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? These words contain a reproach. Had the Thessalonians remembered the instructions of the apostle, they would not have been so soon shaken from their sober reason or troubled. The apostle, when he was in Thessalonica, had told them of these things; he had instructed them concerning the nature of the apostasy and the coming of the man of sin; so that, as already observed, this description, so obscure to us, was not obscure to the Thessalonians, - they possessed the key to its interpretation.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Remember ye not.--A rebuke of the same character as Romans 6:3; 1Corinthians 6:19, and, like those, levelled at ignorance of what in apostolic days were thought the six fundamental points of Christian teaching (Hebrews 5:12; Hebrews 6:1-2). The doctrine of Antichrist would naturally form part of the course on resurrection and judgment. This explains how the doctrine was enforced (1) so early in the education of the Christian churches: "while I was yet with you" (see Introduction to the First Epistle to Thessalonians); and (2) so emphatically and repeatedly:" my habit was to tell you these things"--for the word translated "told" is in the imperfect tense, which means more than a single action. Notice that in St. Paul's eager personal recollection, of thus teaching, he for once (and nowhere else) forgets Silas and Timothy: not "we," but "I." Imagine a forger who should forge with such subtlety! Mark also how erroneous is the opinion that St. Paul in this Epistle recedes from his former teaching about the Advent and its date.
