by jimwalton » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:40 am
No, it doesn't. The term translated "prepared" (κατηρτισμένα) is in the adjectival passive sense: because of their disobedience they "ready and ripe for destruction." They are agents of their own destruction. God is the one, then, who gives them what they have chosen. 1 Thessalonians 2.16 gives the same thought: they have heaped up their sins to the limit, and they have in essence called God's wrath down upon themselves.
No, it doesn't. The term translated "prepared" (κατηρτισμένα) is in the adjectival passive sense: because of their disobedience they "ready and ripe for destruction." They are agents of their own destruction. God is the one, then, who gives them what they have chosen. 1 Thessalonians 2.16 gives the same thought: they have heaped up their sins to the limit, and they have in essence called God's wrath down upon themselves.