...following. " Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by our authoring together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind,...perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing...

...Paul's description in the New Testament of the apostacy, or falling away, when " the man of sin should be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and...God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God; whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders,...

...2 Thess ii. 1 — 12: "Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon...perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing...

...martyrs of Jesus ; and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." (Rev. xvii. 5, 6.) " Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day shall...God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." (2 Thess. ii. 3, 4.) St. Jerome, in his Epistle to Marcella, calls the Church of Rome...

...and finally be conquered and overthrown, before the day of judgment arrives. " The man of sin must be revealed ; the son of perdition, who opposeth and...God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." None but a child, or a votary of Rome, can doubt to whom this description refers....

...sacrilegious, either to profane it, or to exalt other days into rivalship with it : this — that " man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself...God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God " — has done ; and for this, and bis other blasphemous usurpations, the Lord of the...

...the head of the Roman pontiff, had the pen of inspiration declared, * " that the man of sin should be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is » 2 Thess. ii. 3, 4. See also the different parts of the Apocalypse relating to the usurpations...

...Thess. ii. 1 — 12.) " Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon...perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, ^or that is worshipped ; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing...

...probable thst such a religion should suffer such a corruption. Yet this was predicted: " There shall come a falling away first, and that Man of sin be...perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is Worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing...

...judgment and general resurrection) shall not come, except there come a fallin g away first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped: " So that he as God sitteth in the temple (or church) of...