Etheridge(i)
3 Let no one deceive you by any one of the methods,[Or, schemes.] because unless there shall come first the rebellion,[Mardutho.] and there be revealed the man of sin, the son of perdition;
4 He who is the adversary, and is exalted over all who is called God and Venerable; so that also in the temple of Aloha as Aloha he will sit, and will make manifest of himself as that he is Aloha.
5 Do you not remember, that, when I was with you, these I told you?
6 And now you know what [with]holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity already beginneth to be effective; only if that which now holdeth be taken from the midst,