But they will not get very far. This covers what he has been saying all the way back to 2 Timothy 2:14. Jewish literature says this: "As for the illusions of art magic, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace" (Wis. 17:7). Adam Clarke says: "False doctrine cannot prevail long where the sacred Scriptures are read and studied. Error prevails only where the book of God is withheld from the people."
Verse 9. _BUT THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FARTHER_] Such teaching and teachers shall never be able _ultimately_ to prevail against the truth; for the foundation of God standeth sure. _THEIR FOLLY SHALL BE...
BUT THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER - There is a certain point beyond which they will not be allowed to go. Their folly will become manifest, and the world will understand it. The apostle does not say h...
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...
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...
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...
In the same way as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men whose minds are corrupt, and whose faith is counterfeit. But they will not get much further, for their folly wi...
PROCEED NO. not (App-105) proceed. Greek. _prokopto,_ as in Romans 13:12. FURTHER. Literally to (App-101) more. The magicians were allowed to imitate Moses up to. certain point, and then God stopped...
_But they shall proceed no further_ The same words as in 2 Timothy 2:16, where their advance is predicted. Here the future beyond that advance is seen. The adverbial phrase with the verb lends itself...
ἈΛΛʼ ΟΥ̓ ΠΡΟΚΌΨΟΥΣΙΝ ἘΠῚ ΠΛΕΙ͂ΟΝ. _Notwithstanding they shall not make further progress_, because the hollowness of their pretensions is speedily disclosed. See 2 Timothy 2:16 above. Ἡ ΓᾺΡ ἌΝΟΙΑ ΑΥ̓Τ...
THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE FUTURE...
ΠΡΟΚΌΨΟΥΣΙΝ fut _ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΚΌΠΤΩ (G4298) прорываться вперед, продвигаться, двигаться вперед (_см._ 2 Timothy 2:16). ΈΠ ΠΛΕΊΟΝ (G1909; G4183) "дальше, очень далеко" (Lock), ΆΝΟΙΑ (G454) непони...
BUT THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER, &C.— "But I foresee, that they shall not proceed much farther in these artifices, for their folly shall be manifested to all; as theirs also was, when God sent upon...
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...
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER - though for a time (2 Timothy 2:16) 'they shall [ prokopsousin...
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...
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...
THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER] they shall not be able to continue to resist Timothy with success, any more than the magicians were capable of finally resisting Moses (Exodus 8:18; Exodus 9:11)....
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 THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER. — After that St. Paul, with no gentle hand, had torn aside the veil which was hiding apparently from Timothy the real state of his great charge at Ephesus, and had p...
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....
οὐ προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ πλεῖον : There is only a verbal inconsistency between this statement and those in 2 Timothy 2:16 and 2 Timothy 3:13, where see notes. The meaning here is that there will be a limit...
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...
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...
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...
(3) But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was. (3) He adds a comfort: the Lord will at length take off all their masks....
But they shall proceed no farther. How doth this agree with ver. 13. where it is said, that seducers shall grow worse and worse? or with what he said in the last chapter, (ver. 17.) that their talk sp...
(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...
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...
9_But they shall not proceed further _He encourages Timothy for the contest, by the confident hope of victory; for, although false teachers give him annoyance, he promises that they shall be, within a...
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 THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER,.... They may proceed to more ungodliness, and wax worse and worse in error; but they shall proceed no further than the magicians of Egypt, who did lying wonders, har...
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all _men_, as theirs also was. Ver. 9. _As theirs also was_] Exodus 8:19. When they were set, and could not with all their sk...
_Now as Jannes and Jambres_ Some ancient writers speak of these persons as the chief of Pharaoh's magicians, whose names, though not recorded by Moses, yet being handed down by tradition, are preserve...
NO FURTHER; in their propagation of error and wickedness, than God shall suffer them. AS THEIRS ALSO WAS; the folly of Jannes and Jambres, who pretended to work miracles when they did not. In opposin...
BUT THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER; FOR THEIR FOLLY SHALL BE MANIFEST UNTO ALL MEN, AS THEIRS ALSO WAS. According to Jewish tradition the men here mentioned, Jannes and Jambres, were sons of Balaam and...
The certainty of the ultimate exposure of the errorists:...
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...
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...
BUT THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER; God will preserve those in his church that are sincere; though they may captivate a few poor, ignorant women, they shall have no great success. FOR THEIR FOLLY SHALL...
2 Timothy 3:9 but G235 progress G4298 (G5692) no G3756 further G1909 G4119 for G1063 their G846 folly...
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 3:9. THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER. Verbally there seems a contradiction between this and 2 Timothy 2:16, but the context shows that the earlier passage refers to the development of evil ten...
THEY SHALL PROCEED NO FURTHER (ου προκοψουσιν επ πλειον). Future active of προκοπτω. See 2 Timothy 2:16.FOLLY (ανοια). Old word (from ανοος, a privative and νους), want of sense, here only in N.T...
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...
_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...
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. 9. _But_ (such is the conclusion of the matter) _they shall not make progress_ (οὐ προκόψουσιν ἐπὶ πλεῖον, lit. shall not advance to more, or rise to a stronger position); _for their folly shall...
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 Kings 22:25; 2 Timothy 3:8; Acts 13:11; Acts 19:15; Exodus 7:12;...
Shall proceed [π ρ ο κ ο ψ ο υ σ ι ν]. See on chapter 2 Timothy 2:16. Folly [α ν ο ι α]. Only here and Luke 6:11 (note). The senselessness of their teaching, with an implication of is immoral charact...
They shall proceed no farther — In gaining proselytes....
Here our apostle encourages Timothy, and in him all the succeeding ministers of the gospel, to the end of the world, against all the discouragements which either he or they might meet with from the im...