Subject: "Sons" of perdition? |
Bible Note: I do not read Greek or Aramaic. W. E. Vine was a brother in Christ who did and brought together the meanings of the Greek words so that we who speak English can better understand what the Bible is speaking about. A. T. Robertson, another brother in Christ who does understand Greek wrote ... But the son of perdition (ei mh o uioß thß apwleiaß). The very phrase for antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Note play on apwleto, perished (second aorist middle indicative of apollumi). It means the son marked by final loss, not annihilation, but meeting one's destiny (Acts 2:25). A sad and terrible exception (Mark 14:21). so both see perdition as speaking of the destiny of the one spoken about. let us make sure that is not our destiny John 20:31 Amplified But these are written (recorded) in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name [through Who He is]. [Ps. 2:7, 12.] |