According to Preterists did "the man of sin" (2 Thessalonians 2:3) become manifest before 70AD? If so, who was it?
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> KJV 2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord
> Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2Th 2:2 That
> ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor
> by word, nor by letter as from us, as **that the day of Christ is at
> hand**. 2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for **that day
> shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man
> of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and
> exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped;
> so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that
> he is God.** 2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you,
> I told you these things? 2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth
> that he might be revealed in his time. 2Th 2:7 For **the mystery of
> iniquity doth already work**: only he who now letteth will let, until
> he be taken out of the way. 2Th 2:8 And **then shall that Wicked be
> revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
> and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:** 2Th 2:9 Even
> him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and
> signs and lying wonders, 2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of
> unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the
> love of the truth, that they might be saved.
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