Ver. 3.—Let no man deceive you by any means; in any way, not only in any of the foregoing methods, “by spirit, or word, or letter,” but in any way whatever. For (that day shall not come). The bracketed words are not in the original, but are correctly supplied for the completion of the sense. Except there come a falling away; or, the apostasy; namely, that apostasy about which the apostle, when in Thessalonica, had instructed his readers. The falling away here alluded to is evidently religious, not