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Verse 7. _EVER LEARNING_] From their false teachers, _and never_ _able
to come to the knowledge of the truth_, because that teaching never
leads to the _truth_; for, although there was a _form of_ _go...
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EVER LEARNING - That is, these “silly women;” for so the Greek
demands. The idea is, that they seeM to be disciples. They put
themselves wholly under the care of these professedly religious
teachers,...
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III. THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR PERILS
CHAPTER 3
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1. The characteristics of the last days (2 Timothy 3:1)
2. What the last days mean for the true believer (2 Timothy 3:8)
3. The need of the Word of...
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2 Timothy 3:1 to 2 Timothy 4:8. CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING FUTURE
ERROR.
(_a_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:1. FUTURE ERROR AND ITS PRESENT GERMS. Timothy must
consider future as well as present dangers. As the Seco...
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TIMES OF TERROR (2 Timothy 3:1)
_ 3:1 You must realize this--that in the last days difficult times
will set in._
The early Church lived in an age when the time was waxing late; they
expected the Sec...
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For from among these there come those who enter into houses, and take
captive foolish women, laden with sins and driven by varied desires,
ready to listen to any teacher but never able to come to a kn...
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EVER. Always. App-151.
NEVER. not at any time. Greek. _medepote._ Only here
TO. App-101.
KNOWLEDGE. App-132....
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_never able_ The negative used indicates the class of persons
conceived of.
_the knowledge of the truth_ THE FALL KNOWLEDGE, a -decisive and
stable apprehension," Alford. See note on 1 Timothy 2:4. Cf...
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THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE FUTURE...
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ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΟΝΤΑ, _ever learning_; they are full of
morbid curiosity.
ΜΗΔΈΠΟΤΕ. The tendency of the later language (see Blass,
_Grammar of N.T. Greek_, § 75. 5) is to employ μή rather than
οὐ, and...
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ΠΆΝΤΟΤΕ (G3842) всегда,
ΜΑΝΘΆΝΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. (adj.) асс. n. pl. от_
ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) узнавать через
наставление (BAGD). Part, в _n. pl._ относится к
женщинам из ст. 6, которые, очевидно,
хоте...
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DISCOURSE: 2253
A WANT OF PROFITING BY THE GOSPEL, CENSURED
2 Timothy 3:7. _Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge
of the truth_.
FROM what we know of the excellency of the Gospel, we...
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PART TWO
_Warnings 3:1-4:5_
1.
RECOGNIZE THE COMING APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:1-9
_TEXT 3:1-9_
1 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come, 2
For men shall be lovers of self, lover...
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Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
EVER LEARNING - some novelty to suit their own fancies, from mere
curiosity and instability, to the disparagement of old truths...
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8 The literal resurrection of Christ as the Seed of David seems to be
the apostle's answer to the theory of a spiritual resurrection. The
Seed of David can be nothing less than a literal Man.
10 'The...
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3:7 knowledge (f-10) Clear, full knowledge or acknowledgment, _
epignosis_ ....
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EVER LEARNING, AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH]
an exquisite description of that restlessness of mind, which leads to
excessive curiosity upon religious subjects, but does not min...
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WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS REGARDING THE LAST DAYS
1-9. In the days immediately preceding the Second Coming, the Lord had
taught that iniquity would abound. St. Paul reminds Timothy of this
truth as a...
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HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK
2 TIMOTHY
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 3
EVIL PERSONS IN THE LAST DAYS (3:1-9)
V1 You should be aware that in the last days life will be very
diffi...
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EVER LEARNING, AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
— A morbid love of novelty, and a hope to penetrate into mysteries
not revealed to God’s true teachers, spurred these female learne...
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Evil times are upon us; we have indeed amongst us specimens of the
perennial impostor, worthy successors of Jannes and Jambres. The
shortlived nature of their success, will be, however, patent to all....
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πάντοτε μανθάνοντα : They have never concentrated
their attention on any spiritual truth so as to have learnt it and
assimilated it. They are always being attracted by “some newer
thing,” τι καινότερο...
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A DARK PICTURE OF EVIL MEN
2 Timothy 3:1
The last days of the present age are to be black and sorrowful. Sinful
rejection of Christ will come to a head. We must not be misled by the
wide-spread profe...
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Clearly seeing trouble coming from the teaching of those who were
''holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof,"
the apostle referred to his own manner of life and service as
aff...
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THE WORK OF APOSTATES
The hypocritical men Paul had just described would sneak into the
homes of the saints and take advantage of the unsuspecting nature of
women. Particularly, the silly, or little o...
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(1) В¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come. (2) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unh...
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Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the
same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things
had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
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7_Always learning, while yet they never can come to the knowledge of
the truth _That fluctuation between various desires, of which he now
speaks, is when, having nothing solid in themselves, they are...
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Now this evil influence would too surely be exercised. The power of
the holy truth of God would be lost in the assembly and among
Christians; and those who bore this name would become (under the
influ...
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EVER LEARNING,.... Some new notion and practice or another: and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth; partly because of the
teachers, which they heap up to themselves, who are unapt to tea...
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Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Ver. 7. _Ever learning, and never able_] Because resolved not to lose
their lusts. _Intus existens prohibebat alienum; _ there was...
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_For_, &c. As if he had said, There is need to watch against such,
because there are some of them already in the church; _for of this
sort_ are those artful deceivers who _creep into houses_ Insinuate...
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EVER LEARNING; from their false teachers what they would have them
believe and do.
NEVER ABLE; under such teachers, to know the truths of the gospel.
Compare Matthew 15:14....
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EVER LEARNING, AND NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.
This entire passage is prophetical in character, it being the Lord's
intention to give to all pastors to the end of time a warning:...
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False Teachers and False Brethren of the Last Days. 2 Timothy 3:1
A description of the dangerous teachers:...
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When Paul wrote this to Timothy, "the last days" had not yet come, so
it is evident that the epistle is not written strictly for Timothy
personally, but for every individual believer who would follow...
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1-9 Even in gospel times there would be perilous times; on account of
persecution from without, still more on account of corruptions within.
Men love to gratify their own lusts, more than to please G...
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OLBGrk;
Women that pretend to be _ever learning_ the truth, but cannot obtain
of their lusts a leave to acknowledge the truth in their practice. The
word is epignwsin, which rather signifies a practi...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
For, being driven away from Him who truly is [God], and being turned
backwards, he shall be for ever seeking, yet shall never find out
God;[115]
Irenaeus Against He...
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2 Timothy 3:7 always G3842 learning G3129 (G5723) and G2532 never
G3368 able G1410 (G5740) come G2064 ...
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SECTION 3. THOSE WHO ARE TRULY THE LORD'S MUST EQUIP THEMSELVES
ACCORDINGLY, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE GRIEVOUS TIMES THAT ARE COMING
(2 TIMOTHY 2:19 TO 2 TIMOTHY 3:17).
Having called on him to endure...
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2 Timothy 3:7. The words describe vividly the fruitless wanderings of
those who pass from system to system and teacher to teacher.
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, _i.e.,_ as in 2 Timothy 2:25, the full...
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NEVER ABLE TO COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH
(μηδεποτε εις επιγνωσιν αληθειας
ελθειν δυναμενα). Pathetic picture of these hypnotized
women without intellectual power to cut through the fog of w...
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2 Timothy 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,...
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CONTENTS: Apostasy predicted. The believer's resource, the Scriptures.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Jannes, Jambres, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The last days of the Gospel dispensation will be perilous...
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2 Timothy 3:1. _In the last days perilous times shall come._ So the
Spirit expressly spake when the measure of the jews should be full,
when they should even deliver up their relatives to death, and w...
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ALWAYS TRYING TO LEARN. This continues 2 Timothy 3:6. These women are
always looking for some new thing (compare Acts 17:21). They listen
greedily to everyone that comes along, but they never learn an...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
2 Timothy 3:6. SILLY WOMEN.—The diminutive term (“little women”)
is not found again in New Testament. The contemptuous epithet
indicates their weakness and proneness...
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EXPOSITION
2 TIMOTHY 3:1
_But know this _for _this know also_,_ _A.V.; _grievous _for
_perilous_,_ _A.V. GRIEVOUS TIMES (καιροὶ χαλεποί)._
_"Grievous" is not a very good rendering. "Perilous," thou...
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Vers. 6, 7. The apostle now not only presupposes the existence of
parties to whom his description in a measure applied, but also points
to a specific line of operations carried on by them. _For of the...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Second Timothy chapter three? Paul
said to Timothy,
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come (2
Timothy 3:1).
It is interesting that the Scri...
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1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Timothy 2:25; 2 Timothy 4:3;...
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Ever learning. From any one who will teach them. See on 1 Timothy
5:13. It is a graphic picture of a large class, by no means extinct,
who are caught and led by the instructions of itinerant religious...
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Ever learning — New things. But not the truth of God....