John Trapp on 2 Thessalonians 2:1

CHAP. II. Verſe 1. Now we beſeech you, brethren]

CHriſts ſpokeſmen muſt be fair ſpoken, ſo wooing for him, that they may win upon mens hearts; leading by the hand thoſe that are willing, and drawing after a ſort thoſe that are leſſe willing, that they may preſent them as a chaſte virgin to Chriſt, 2 Cor. 11.2.

By the coming of our Lord] He draweth an argument from the matter under hand, wherewith their hearts were now heated afore hand. It muſt be an elaborate ſpeech that ſhall work up-on the heart.

And by our gathering together unto him] In that laſt and great day, when all the Eagles ſhall be gathered to that once dead,Mat 24.28. Epheſ. 1.10. but now all-quickning carcaſe: when the ſign of the ſon of man ſhall be lifted up as an Enſign, and all the Saints ſhall repair to it, as the ſouldiers do to their colours.