Haimo of Auxerre

In his own words on 2 Thessalonians

• 2 Thessalonians 1:1

  The first letter that was written to the them, where it comes to the place where the Apostle speaks of the role of the elect who are still alive on the Day of Judgment, saying, "Then we who are still alive, who are left, suddenly will be caught up with them to meet Christ in the air" (1 Thess 4:17), they were upset and utterly terrified, since they thought that the Apostle was saying that in his own lifetime, and thus in theirs, too, the Lord would come in judgment. They were afraid that they would be cast into the dungeon of eternal punishment with the Devil, because, as latecomers to the faith, they were imperfect. So the Apostle wrote this second letter to them as soon as he learned of their despair. In it he indicated to them that the Day of Judgment was not yet imminent in their lifetime. He also announces the coming and the death of the Antichrist.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:5

  He calls the judgment of God "just" because then God will judge the world equally.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:6

  If indeed, a conjunction of cause, is used in this case not for the purpose of doubting but for affirmation, as if he were saying, "Since it is just for God to do this."

• 2 Thessalonians 1:7

  is revealed that is, manifestation. from heaven, coming to judge. with the Angels of his virtue, just as he Himself says, "When the Son of man will come, and all the angels with him." (Mt 25:31)

• 2 Thessalonians 1:8

  who are not obedient to the Gospel It also refers to the heretics and the false Christians

• 2 Thessalonians 2:6

  so that he may be revealed in his own time: That is, the proper time set by God.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:15

  who has loved us So much so that He gave us His only Son.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:5

  so that you may be patient among the adversities of the world, just as Christ bore patiently the reproaches, the mockeries, the scourging, and the Cross. Or, as some manuscripts have it, "in the expectation of Christ," that you may await the coming of Christ in judgment.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:17

  At the end of every letter he wrote his name both in Hebrew letters and in the Greek, lest what may come from one of the false apostles may be allowed to corrupt them.