What Does 2 Thessalonians 2:1 Mean in the King James?
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
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 my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.THE THREAD
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.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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