Verse 6. _FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY_] He here refers to _false_ _teachers_ and their _insinuating manners_, practising upon weak women, who, seeing in them such a semblance of piety, entertain them w...
FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES - Who go slyly and insidiously into families. They are not open and manly in endeavoring to propagate their views, but they endeavor by their address...
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...
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...
OF. App-104. THIS SORT. these. CREEP. Greek. _enduno_ Only here. Akin to _enduo,_ to clothe, to put on. into. App-104. HOUSES. the houses. LEAD CAPTIVE. See Ephesians 4:8. SILLY WOMEN. Greek. _gu...
Appeal to Timothy for pure doctrine in view of the worse doctrines to come 6. _For of this sort_ FOR OF THESE, the reason of the warning; the mischief has begun. _which creep into_ The verb occurs o...
THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE FUTURE...
ΑἸΧΜΑΛΩΤΊΖΟΝΤΕΣ. So the best authorities, אACD2*GP &c.; the rec. text reads αἰχμαλωτεύοντες with D2cEKL and adds the article τά with a few cursives; the form αἰχμαλωτίζειν is Alexandrian or Macedonian...
ΈΝΔΎΝΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΝΔΎΝΩ (G1744) входить, вкрадываться, врываться. Имеется в виду навязчивость вторжения (Guthrie), ΑΊΧΜΑΛΩΤΊΖΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΑΙΧΜΑΛΩΤΊΖΩ (G163) брать в п...
FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY, &C.— Some begin this verse with the last clause of the preceding. The word rendered _creep,_ ενδυνοντες, signifies to _insinuate,_ or _slide in,_ like snakes. Some read _who...
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...
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, OF THIS SORT - Greek, 'of these' (2 Timothy 3:5). CREEP INTO - stealth...
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...
CREEP INTO HOUSES] the constant habit of proselytisers to evil, who do not shrink from crooked and base means of accomplishing their purpose. LEAD CAPTIVE] having lost all freedom of will, like prison...
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...
FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES, AND LEAD CAPTIVE SILLY WOMEN. — The corrupting influence of these hypocritical professors of the religion of Jesus must have been already great, and...
ἐνδύνοντες : _who insinuate themselves into houses_ [which they overthrow], Titus 1:11. “Observe how he shows their impudence by this expression, their dishonourable ways, their deceitfulness” (Chrys....
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....
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...
Of this sort, &c. Here St. Paul gives a true description of heretics, and evil men; such as they have existed in every age. For there never existed a time, either under the Old or New Testaments, in w...
(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...
6_Of those are they who creep into families _You would say, that here Paul intentionally draws a lively picture of the order of monks. But without saying a single word about monks, those marks by whic...
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...
FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES,.... Privily and unawares, in a clandestine manner, and insinuate themselves into families, by fawning and flattering, and under specious pretences to...
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ver. 6. _Creep into houses_] Gr. ενδυνοντες, shoot themselves into the inn...
_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...
THIS SORT; of false teachers. CREEP INTO HOUSES; go slyly into families. LEAD CAPTIVE; get the confidence, and thus control the conscience and the purse of weak and wicked women. Inducing weak and si...
False Teachers and False Brethren of the Last Days. 2 Timothy 3:1 A description of the dangerous teachers:...
FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES, AND LEAD CAPTIVE SILLY WOMEN LADEN WITH SINS, LED AWAY WITH DIVERS LUSTS,...
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...
OLBGrk; FOR OF THIS SORT ARE THEY WHICH CREEP INTO HOUSES; who do not only privily enter in at the doors of houses, but pierce into the secrets of them, making it their business to pry into all famili...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians For there are many wolves that appear worthy of credit, who, by means of a pernicious pleasure, carry captive[9] Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians...
2 Timothy 3:6 For G1063 of G1537 sort G5130 those G1526 (G5748) creep G1744 (G5723) into G1519 households...
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 3:6. CREEP INTO HOUSES. The whole verse paints the early phase of an evil which has reappeared but too frequently in the religious history of Christendom. Every word expresses the scorn with...
THAT CREEP (ο ενδυνοντες). Old and common verb (also ενδυω) either to put on (1 Thessalonians 5:8) or to enter (to slip in by insinuation, as here). See same idea in Judges 1:4 (παρεισεδυησαν), 2 Pe...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
AND GET CONTROL. These sneak into houses and seduce women into false religious practices. Paul does not mean that all women are like this, but those who have an unhealthy sense of guilt and are slaves...
_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...
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...
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 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 3:17; Isaia
Of this sort [ε κ τ ο υ τ ω ν]. Lit. of these. The formula often in Paul. Which creep [ο ι ε ν δ υ ν ο ν τ ε ς]. N. T. o. Thrust themselves into. Comp. Jude 1:4, pareiseduhsan crept in privily (see no...
Of these — That is, mere formalists....
In these words our apostle renders. reason why we should turn away from the forementioned sins and sinners, namely, because these heretical and false teachers before characterized are of an insinuatin...