As to this event St. Paul
admonishes the Thessalonians (2 Thessalonians 2:3) that they must not be terrified, as if
the day of the Lord were at hand, for there must first come a revolt. The Fathers and
interpreters understand by this revolt a great reduction in the number of the faithful
through the abandonment of the Christian religion by many nations. Some commentators cite
as confirmatory of this belief the words of Christ: "But yet the Son of man, when he
cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?" (Luke 18:8).
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