What Does 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Mean?
We ask you, brothers, concerning the arrival of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One and our gathering together to him.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,THE KEY
The verse joins Christ’s appearing to a shared gathering, so the hope is communal and directed toward him.
THE MEANING
This verse holds Christ’s appearing and the gathering of his people in one frame: the hope is shared and directed toward him. Its “we” includes you within that shared expectation now.
THE ROOT
ἐπισυναγωγή
episynagōgē
GROWS FROM
συνάγω
To gather together or assemble.
“Gathering together” is ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē), built from the συνάγω (synagō, “gather, assemble”) word family. The same noun names the believers’ assembly in Hebrews 10:25, linking the gathering toward Christ with people assembling together.
ALSO GROWS
synagō: To gather, assemble.
συνάγω
This verb names the action within the noun ἐπισυναγωγή: people are brought into a shared gathering.
synagōgē: Assembly, gathering.
συναγωγή
This related noun names the assembled gathering, showing how the word family holds together the act of gathering and the assembly.
episynagōgē: Gathering together, assembly.
ἐπισυναγωγή
Hebrews 10:25 uses this same noun for the assembly of believers.
THE PATTERN
God’s gathering draws scattered people into shared nearness.
Gather to me my faithful ones, those who cut my covenant over the slaughtered offering.And not for that nation only, but that he would also gather together into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.Then we who are living and remain will be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.THE THREAD
Not leaving behind the gathering of ourselves, as is the habit of some, but urging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.Hebrews uses the same Greek noun, ἐπισυναγωγή (episynagōgē), for the assembling of believers. That shared word connects the gathering toward Christ with the tangible assembly of people together.
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