Verse 8
8. In flaming fire Greek, in a fire (consisting) of flame; in a pure fiery flame. Not the penal fire of gehenna, but the resplendent and consuming blaze of his glorious epiphany. Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:8.
Taking vengeance More literally, administering retribution.
Them The troublers, who are divided (as the repeated Greek article shows) into two classes, the pagans who ignore God, and the Jews who reject his Son Messiah.
Know not God Specifically applied to the Gentiles in 1 Thessalonians 4:5. They once in former ages knew God; they then began to bow in reverence to finite material or animal representatives of God; and they then lost sight of the Infinite in the finite, first forming finite living gods, as in classic mythology, and last, holding the worshipped object or idol as a god, as in fetichism.
Obey not the gospel Messiah’s glad announcement. Descriptive, especially, of the Jews rejecting their own Christ. Romans 10:3; Romans 10:16; Romans 10:21.
Lord Jesus Christ Repeated from 2 Thessalonians 1:7. The rejected one is the avenging one.
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