5– 7. ‘ You cannot have forgotten that while I was still with you, I was in the habit of telling you these things. And since then you have had experience for yourselves of the working of that power by which the full revelation of the lawless one is kept in check until his appointed time shall have arrived. The full revelation we say— for the spirit of lawlessness is already at work, though in secret, until he who at present is keeping it in check is taken out of the way.’ 5. Οὐμνημονεύετεὅτικτλ.] Est.: ‘ Tacita obiurgatio.’ Calv.: ‘ Observanda etiam Pauli mansuetudo, qui quum acrius excandescere posset, tantum leniter eos castigat.’ For μνημονεύειν cf. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 note, and for the construction εἶναιπρός cf. 1 Thessalonians 3:4 note. The use made of ἔτι as against the Pauline authorship of the Ep. is discussed Intr. p. 90.