2 Thessalonians 3:2

2. Delivered from The great impediment to the free course of the word.

Unreasonable The word means, etymologically, out of place; and hence, as an adjective signifies, unsuitable, unfitting. In Luke 23:41 it is rendered “amiss;” in Acts 28:6 it is rendered “harm,” meaning harmful. At this time of writing at Corinth, probably St. Paul was being harassed by the unbelieving Jews, who raised an “insurrection,” and arraigned him before Gallic, (Acts 18:12-17,) and it is very possible that it is to them he here alluded.

All… not faith Why state so obvious a fact as that all men are not Christians in faith? To obviate this difficulty some commentators understand by faith, fidelity, good faith, sincerity. And such meaning it has in Matthew 23:23, and Titus 2:10. This is strongly favoured by the apparently antithetic word faithful in next verse, and in have confidence, in 2 Thessalonians 3:4. Let us suppose that the unsuitable and evil men were unreliable professors of Christianity, “false brethren,” who were out of place in Christian communion, and we get a very consistent train of thought. Pray deliverance from untrusty adherents, (who prevent the gospel’s being glorified,) for not all prove faithful; yet faithful is the Lord, and we have faith through him in you. This seems better than Lunemann’s (followed by Alford) interpretation of faith as receptive predisposition. Every other interpretation than ours reduces the antithesis between faith and faithful to one of “sound,” (Alford,) and does not notice the confidence of 2 Thessalonians 3:4 at all.