2 Timothy 3:4

traitors, heady, highminded The last triad again descending, false and forward and full of conceit, the spirit of one who -with a light heart" (1) betrays old friends, and (2) rushes headlong on new faiths, and (3) remains to the end impenetrably wrapped in clouds of self-esteem. The second word only occurs Acts 19:36, -to do nothing rash"; the third has been explained 1 Timothy 6:4; cf. 1 Timothy 3:6; a purely -pastoral" phrase in N.T., though thoroughly classical. Note the weight and force of the perfect participle closing the list of epithets. Cf. 2 Timothy 2:25. The A.V. -highminded" has entirely changed its meaning, as Romans 11:20 shews, -be not highminded, but fear." Cf. Lightfoot, Revision of N. T. p. 175; and see note on 1 Timothy 6:17.

lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God Both compounds only occurring here, like the similar compounds -self-lovers" and -money-lovers" with which the passage opens. The word for -pleasures" is always in a bad sense in N.T., Luke 8:14 -choked with … pleasures of this life." So James 4:1; James 4:3; 2 Peter 2:13.