2 Thess. 2:1-12. "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 shaken in mind, or be _troubled_, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor _by letter as from us,[66] as that the day of Christ is at hand_.--Let no man deceive you by any means; for _that day shall not come, except_[67] there come a falling away first, and _that 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 of God, showing himself that he is God_[68]--Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you _these things_[69]--And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.--For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.--And _then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord_ shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and _shall destroy with the brightness of his coming_.[70]--Even _him, whose coming is after the working of Satan,[71] with all power and signs and lying wonders_[72]--And with all _deceivableness of unrighteousness_ in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.--And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:[73]--That they all might be _damned, who believed not the truth_,[74] but had pleasure in unrighteousness." To this rival of his God--God and rival--both of them of his own creation, the creator has not, we see, given any name. By this omission, he has, perhaps, as perhaps he thought to do, rendered the bugbear but the more terrible. The deficiency, such as it is, the Church of England translators of the English official translation of the Bible, have filled up: they have taken it in hand--this bantling of Paul's--and christened it _Antichrist_. "He," Paul, "showeth," say they, "a discovery of _Antichrist_, before the day of the Lord come." Such is the discovery, communicated in the _heading_, prefixed to the second chapter of the second of the two Epistles: and, of the readers of this so abundantly and gratuitously distributed Bible, how few are there, by whom any such distinction as that between the headings and the text is borne in mind! The right reverend divines in question,--were they the first authors of this discovery, or was it ready-made to their hands?--made by that church, from the errors of which their own has been so felicitously purified? To this question, let those look out for, and find, the answer,--in whose eyes the profit is worth the trouble.