2 Timothy 2:14. Put them in remembrance. No persons have been mentioned, but St. Paul clearly has in his mind the teachers who tend to strivings about words. A various reading of some authority gives, ‘Put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord; strive not about words,' but the text is preferable.

But to the subverting. The English ‘but,' which has nothing answering to it in the Greek, introduces a touch of sarcasm. St. Paul says simply ‘ useful for nothing,' working for the ruin of them that hear.

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Old Testament