Explanation by Oliver Hopper

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 25, 1863

Explanation.

By Oliver Hopper

"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now leteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." 2 Thess. i, 7.

It has been a query in the minds of some, what is meant by the words, "leteth" and "let." We think it means to hinder, or obstruct.

The same word occurs in Isa. xliii, 13, also Rom. i, 13, where it undoubtedly has this meaning. See also the following evidences:—

"Only there is one that hindereth till he be taken out of the way."—Dr. Doddridge.

"The obsolete word -let- in the sense of hindrance."—Dr. Macknight.

"Let—hindrance, delay."—Webster.

OLIVER HOPPER.