Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
This appellation being given to Judas, (John 17:12) Dr. Newton thinks the application of it to the man of sin signifies, that, like Judas, the man of sin was to be a false apostle, and would betray Christ, and be utterly destroyed (MacKnight 429).