Cyprian Treatise VI On the Vanity of Idols
These spirits, therefore, are lurking under the statues and consecrated images: these inspire the breasts of their prophets with their afflatus, animate the fibres of the entrails, direct the flights of birds, rule the lots, give efficiency to oracles, are always mixing up falsehood with truth, for they are both deceived and they deceive;[10]
Verse 13. _EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE_] They will yet get on for a season, deceiving themselves and deceiving others; but, by and by, _their folly will become manifest to all_, 2 Timothy 3...
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE - That is, it is the character of such men to do this; they may be expected to do it. This is the general law of depravity - that if men are not con...
III. THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR PERILS CHAPTER 3 __ 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...
(_b_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:10. TIMOTHY'S SAFEGUARDS. Grave as these dangers are, however, Timothy has a double safeguard. (_a)_ His present difficult task does not take him by surprise. When, at Lystra (Acts 1...
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...
But you have been my disciple in my teaching, my training, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions, my sufferings, in what happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium,...
EVIL. App-128. SEDUCERS. Greek. _goes._ Only here. WAX. Same as "proceed", 2 Timothy 3:9. WORSE, &c. -to (App-104.) the worse....
_But evil men and seducers_ The word -seduce" in A.V. occurs nine times in Old and New Testament always in the general sense of -lead astray"; everywhere except here it is used to represent the Greek...
The appeal for pure life and doctrine in view both of St Paul's own past and the evil future The connexion is: -You were trained to a life the opposite of all this, in learning to copy me, in learnin...
ΠΟΝΗΡΟῚ ΔῈ ἌΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ, _but_ (sc. in contrast with those οἱ θέλοντες ζῆν εὐσεβῶς) _evil men_. Cp. 2 Thessalonians 3:2. ΚΑῚ ΓΌΗΤΕΣ, _and impostors_, lit. _wizards_. The word does not occur again in the G...
TIMOTHY IS COMMENDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AND ENCOURAGED TO ENDURE...
ΓΌΗΤΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΓΌΗΣ (G1114) чародей, фокусник; здесь в _знач._ обманщик; тот, кто очаровывает, волшебник, вводящий в заблуждение (Ellicott; MM; BAGD; TDNT; Spicq; DPL, 580-83). Иосиф Флавий испо...
SEDUCERS.— The word Γοητες properly signifies _sorcerers, magicians,_ jugglers, witches, or enchanters. Jannes and Jambres were evidently such; impostors, who endeavoured to vend a false religion for...
WITHSTAND THE APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:10-17 _TEXT 3:10-17_ 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings; what things befell...
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Reason why persecutions must be expected, and these worse and worse as the end approaches. The breach between lig...
12 This is a crucial test of our true state. Are we suffering persecution? If not, are we in earnest in our will to live devoutly in Christ Jesus? All who tread this path will be persecuted. Paul hims...
3:13 evil, (a-10) Lit. 'to worse.'...
EXHORTATION. Timothy was well instructed in the OT. and in the gospel preached by St. Paul, and he must 'abide in the things that he had learnt and been assured of.'...
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...
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...
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE. — This verse is closely connected with the following (2 Timothy 3:14), to which, indeed, it serves as an introduction. 2 Timothy 3:14 takes up agai...
πονηροὶ δὲ : The antithesis seems to be between the apparent discomfiture of those who wish to live in Christ (their persecution being after all almost a means conditional to their attaining their des...
I am not really uneasy about your steadfastness. You joined me as a disciple from spiritual and moral inducements only. The persecutions you saw me endure you knew to be typical of the conditions of a...
HOLD FAST TO INSPIRED SCRIPTURE 2 Timothy 3:10 The world does not love Christ or Christians any better than of old; and all who are minded to live godly lives will come inevitably to the cross in one...
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...
POWER TO CONFRONT THE COMING APOSTASY Paul's life stood in contrast to the lives of the false teachers and should have served as an example to Timothy and others around him. His teaching was sound and...
But evil men and seducers shall wax (d) worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (d) Their wickedness will daily increase....
I beg the Reader to notice, what a blessed relief the Holy Ghost here proposeth to Timothy, from the melancholy statement, the preceding verses had given, in the example of his faithful servant the Ap...
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...
13_But wicked men and impostors _This is the most bitter of all persecutions, when we see wicked men, with their sacrilegious hardihood, with their blasphemies and errors, gathering strength. Thus Pau...
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...
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE,.... By "evil men" are meant, not sinful men in common, as all are by nature and practice; nor only open profane sinners but rather wicked men under...
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Ver. 13. _Shall wax worse and worse_] _In deterius proficient, _ a sorry kind of profiting, _quando Andabatarum mor...
_But_ thou hast a better pattern to follow; for _thou hast fully known my doctrine_ In all the branches of it; _manner of life_ My conduct toward God, his people, and all men; _purpose_ The end and de...
Men who knowingly seduce others into sin become more and more wicked, and in deceiving others they often deceive themselves, to their own destruction....
THE SPECIAL LESSONS OF PAUL'S AFFLICTIONS....
BUT EVIL MEN AND SEDUCERS SHALL WAX WORSE AND WORSE, DECEIVING AND BEING DECEIVED. The apostle here, by way of contrast to the preceding paragraph, describes the manner of conduct which should charact...
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...
10-13 The more fully we know the doctrine of Christ, as taught by the apostles, the more closely we shall cleave to it. When we know the afflictions of believers only in part, they tempt us to declin...
OLBGrk; Neither do thou expect that the times should mend, for men that are given up to their lusts and gohtev, such as go about to deceive others, will grow _worse and worse, _ as the world groweth...
2 Timothy 3:13 But G1161 evil G4190 men G444 and G2532 impostors G1114 grow G4298 (G5692) worse G1909...
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...
2 Timothy 3:13. Again we have an oscillation of thought, and the immediate advance of evil becomes prominent. The chasm would grow wider till the final issue. SEDUCERS. Better, ‘ _magicians_,' ‘ _so...
IMPOSTORS (γοητες). Old word from wailers (γοαω, to bewail), professional mourners, deceivers, jugglers. Here only in the N.T. Modern impostors know all the tricks of the trade.SHALL WAX WORSE AND...
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,...
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...
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...
BUT EVIL MEN AND IMPOSTORS. This will be true all during the Christian Age, until Christ returns!!! _Impostor_ can mean sorcerer (see 2 Timothy 3:8), and the Devil will COUNTERFEIT the power of God (2...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 3:10. BUT THOU HAST FULLY KNOWN.—R.V. “didst follow.” The mental process of investigation and the moral process of imitating the good seem to blend in this...
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...
Ver. 13. _But evil men and deceivers shall grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived._ We have here, by way of contrast to the life and experience of such as live piously in Christ, a return...
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...
1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Peter 3:3; 2 Thessalonians 2:11;...
Seducers [γ ο ν τ ε ς]. N. T. o. Better, impostors or deceivers. From goan to howl. Originally, one who chants spells; a wizard, sorcerer. Hence, a cheat. Shall wax worse and worse [π ρ ο κ ο ψ ο υ σ...
SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS 2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to every one of us; even the men and the young men love mot...
Deceiving and being deceived — He who has once begun to deceive others is both the less likely to recover from his own error, and the more ready to embrace the errors of other men....
Our apostle having acquainted us, in the former verse, with the condition of the godly, that they must expect and prepare for persecution; he lets us in this verse understand the miserable condition o...