a. For that Day will not come: Paul will not describe events which must precede the rapture, but events that are concrete evidence of the Great Tribulation—the day of Christ. In this sense, one cannot be certain the day of Christ (the Great Tribulation) has come unless these signs are present. i. This phrase is not in the original text, but is very appropriately added. Alford says of the phrase, for that day will not come: “So A.V. supplies, rightly. There does
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