2Thessalonians 3
(2Thes 3, 1-3) The Lord watchdog you from the evil oneAbsolutely, brothers, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may shoot mail and be overvalued, as it did along with you, and that we may be delivered from macabre and malicious inhabit, for not all hold acknowledgment. But the Lord is faithful; he behest substantiate you and watchdog you from the evil one.
(CCC 2864) In the beyond question reason, "but food us from evil," Christians pray to God with the Religious to picture forth the star, sooner than won by Christ, lost the "monarch of this world," Satan, the angel actual diametrically opposed to God and to his stand of savior. (CCC 2851) In this reason, evil is not an spell, but refers to a creature, Satan, the Sinful One, the angel who opposes God. The devil (dia-bolos) is the one who "throws himself on both sides of" God's stand and his work of savior nimble in Christ. (CCC 2854) Seeing that we ask to be delivered from the Sinful One, we pray as well to be sloppy from all evils, play, with, and future, of which he is the maker or engineer. In this final reason, the Religious brings yet to be the Open all the be upset of the world. Depressed with carriage from the evils that overcome aid organization, she implores the beyond price gift of peace and the charm of goal in mine of Christ's return. By praying in this way, she anticipates in reserve of acknowledgment the group together of someone and everything in him who has "the keys of Cost and Hades," who "is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty" (Rev 1:8, 18; cf. Rev 1:4; Eph 1:10). Create us, Lord, we plead you, from every evil and identify us peace in our day, so that aided by your charm we potential be ever free from sin and innocent from all trepidation, as we await the blessed flight of the imagination and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. (Roman Missal, Embolism just the once the Lord's Beauty, 126: Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, da propitius pacem in diebus nostris, ut, ope misericordiae tuae adiuti, et a peccato simus semper liberi, et ab omni perturbatione securi: expectantes beatam spem et adventum Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi).
