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2:1
ንነግረክሙአኀዊነበእንተምጽአተእግዚእነኢየሱስክርስቶስ።
Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you
not to be quickly shaken in your mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
他是抵擋主,高抬自己,超過一切稱為神的和一切受人敬拜的,甚至坐在上帝的殿裏,自稱是上帝。
2:5
ኢትዜከሩኑከመአመሀሎኩኀቤክሙአቅደምኩወነገርኩክሙዘንተ።
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?
我還在你們那裏的時候,曾把這些事告訴你們,你們不記得嗎?
2:6
ወይእዜኒተአምሩዘይከልኦአስተርእዮእስከይበጽሕዕድሜሁ።
Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,