is opposed to xevopuviag ; the <puvrt, implying vehemence of voice, being opposed to temperate speech or word, Xoyog']. Moreover, the word yvuffig agrees with the Hebrew \njrP, a wizard, in the passage quoted above, which the Greeks, in the books of Samuel and Kings at least, have interpreted yvw<rnjv [as we use the term, " a wise man," of a dealer in magic, a wizard]. And in this way, Paul calls the false teachers by the terms signifying magi and magic, to show how much he held them in abomination : comp. yoVsg, 2 Tim. iii. 13. Clemens Al., 1. 2, Strom, f. 280, puts under these words of Paul the following : u-ro ravrqg i
r^g (puvqg 01 aero ruv a'/psosuv, rag vrpbg TiftoQcov dg, " the heretics being reproved by this word (voice), reject the Epistles to Timothy." — *«/ avriQsfcic, and oppositions) A false yvuffig, knowledge, curiously set forth (puffed off) various oppositions taken from philosophy, pretending that there are two Gods opposed to each other as rivals (avnrs^vovg), the one good and the other bad ; and in both, that there are wonderful avnffroi^tag, corresponding oppositions. Paul notices these oppo sitions, and at the same time severely ridicules them by a play on the words ; because their teachers oppose themselves to the truth, and their 6'scsig, positions [taken out of avrtQsaeig, op positions], are contrary to the * foundation' already laid. See the conjugates, wnfaaridtfAevow; and depsXiog, 2 Tim. ii. 25, 19. On the other hand, Paul himself, in his epistles, especially to Timothy, handles most wise oppositions or &vri6i(tttg : for example, 1 Tim. i. 7, 8 ; iii. 16 ; iv. 1, 6, 7, vi. 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, where we have expressly, But thou [marking an antithesis]. More over 2 Tim. ii. 15-23, in which again the phrase, But thou, is frequent; ch. iii. 10, 14, iv. 5. — •^svdwjpou yvutsug, of science falsely so called) which in ver. 21 is to be referred to science, by separating it from its epithet. The Gnostics, who are here denoted by a Metonymy of the abstract for the concrete, boasted of and applied the name science to their teaching; but Paul says that it was so named falsely ; they are without understand ing, ch. i. 7.
21. TLspi rqv <rri(sriv r^To^ffoiv, they have erred concerning the faith) Although they attempt to appropriate to themselves v, science, and yvuaiv, knowledge, ver. 4, 20, and its v, accurate reasoning [Jiitting the mark, opposed to across «,