“[Yet] the reign of Antichrist will be temporary…. He [Paul] had predicted the destruction of the reign of Antichrist, and now describes the manner of his destruction. He will be annihilated by the Word of the Lord…. Paul does not think that Christ will accomplish this in a single moment….
18 Comm. on Matt. 24:34. 19 Comm. on II Thess. 2:2-8.
“Meantime, Christ will scatter the darkness in which Antichrist will reign, by the rays which He will emit…. This victory of the Word will therefore be seen in the world. For ‘the Breath of His Mouth’ [alias ‘the Spirit of the Word of God’] means simply His Word, as in Isaiah 11:4 — the passage to which Paul appears to be alluding….
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