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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 22, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 26.

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“Two Whens.”

By R. F. Cottrell

BRO. SMITH: Your remarks on 2 Thess. i, 6-10, are in harmony with the view I have taken of the text for the last fifteen years and more; and some mention of it in the REVIEW, not long since, caused me to resolve to write a little comment on it as you have done. Your exposition of it is perfectly satisfactory to my mind; but it may aid others in the investigation, perhaps, if I add one more thought. I observe then that if the everlasting destruction of the text is executed at the same time when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven, the tenses should agree, and the text should read, “taking vengeance” on the ungodly, punishing them with everlasting destruction, instead of “who shall be punished;” and this would render the second “when” redundant, and exclude it from the passage. R. F. COTTRELL.