Peter reproves and calls scoffers those who maintain that the coming of the Lord and his promises are slow (2 Peter 3:3-4). Paul restrains those who assert that the Day of the Lord is approaching (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2). Hence it is clear to all "who love his coming" (2 Timothy 4:8) that the mind must be controlled rather moderately in this conjecture, so that we surmise neither that the aforesaid Day of the Lord is near and will come quickly, nor again that it is coming too slowly. But we should be diligent in seeing to this alone: that whether it comes sooner or later, it may find us ready when it does come.
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