Note 26 — PAPERS ON THE LORD'S COMING

We have no pretensions whatever to scholarship; we are merely gleaners in the deeply interesting field of criticism in which others have reaped a golden harvest. We do not mean to occupy our readers with arguments in defence of readings given in the text; but we feel that there is no use in giving them what we consider to be erroneous. We believe there is no doubt whatever that the true reading of 2 Thessalonians ii. is as we have given it above, "as that the day of the Lord is present." The word ενεστηκεν can only be thus rendered. It occurs in Romans viii. 38, where it is translated "things present." So also in 1 Corinthians iii. 22, "things present;" chapter vii. 25, "present distress;" Galatians i. 4, "present evil world;" Hebrews ix. 9, "time then present."