[B-Greek] 2 Thes 2:3a

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 23 14:16:37 EDT 2004


Arie:

Yes. You are right on the money with your comments.
What I didn't want to raise was the implications of hH
APOSTASIA, which many translate as "the rebellion." As
you know, this word covers multiple semantic domains.
Wuest I think taught it, but many others have
followed, and have concluded that hH APOSTASIA must
refer to a previous mentioned event and ties it into
the gathering together (the "departure") to be with
the Lord (what some call the Rapture). Often times
people say that this hH APOSTASIA cannot refer to the
"Rapture" on grammatical or syntactical grounds, but
on purely grammatical grounds it actually can. As
preposterous as it is that this could refer to a
Rapture, I would not eliminate it on the basis of the
Greek text. As you have suggested, this would better
be eliminated on the basis of other eschatological
passages. Taking hH APOSTASIA as referring to
something completely disjointed from the Day, such as
the Rapture, is permissible on grammatical grounds but
dismissed on eschatological grounds, IMHO.

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Eddie Mishoe
Pastor


		
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