The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Timothy — Section 39

BooU), here In oontrast with 36vaµir the in whluh It is here need. It seems to con- reality. In Rom. Ii. 20, the only other place vey the idea of passive helpleemeee. Led In the New Testament where µ&ptp"'"" awe.y (a-y6µ•va); witl:i a strong intimation of ooours, there is no contrast, and ao it h&e unresisting weakneBB (comp. 1 Cor. xii. 2; the sense of a" true sketch" or "delinea- Acts viii. 32; Lake uiii. 32). Loata (l1r,- tion." He.ving denied (tipv71µ,vo,); possibly 8uµCan); all kinds of carnal and eelftah more oorreot than the A.V. "denying," desires (see Matt. iv. 19; John viii. 44; though the difference, if any, is very slight. Rom. i. 2-l; vi. 12; vii. 7, S; Gal. v. 24; The meaning is that by their life and Epb. ii. 3; iv. 22; Col. iii. 5; 1 Tim. vi. ohare.cter and converee.tion they ga.ve the 9; eh. ii. 22; iv. 3: Titus ii. 12; iii. 3; lie to their Chrietia.n profession. Christia.n ity 1 Pet. i. H, et.c. ; 2 Pet. ii. 18; 1 John with them we.s an outward form, not an in- ii. 16, etc.). ward living power of godliness. From theae Ver. 7.--Ever learning, etc. This ia the also does not give the sense at e.11 dearly. crowning feature of this powerful sketch of The A.V. does, though it omits the 1<al, those "silly women," whose thoughts a.re which is not wanted in Englis,h. In the busied about religion without their e.1fections Greek it marks an &dditione.l circumstance being reached or their principles being in- in the oe.se of those of whom he is speaking, fluenced by it. They are always beating viz. that they are to be turned away from e.s about the bnah, but they never get poeaee- hopeless. Turn e.we.y (a.1T0Tpe1ro11); only here sion of the blessed and ee.ving truth of the in the New Testament, or, &i lee.et in the gospel of God. Their own selfish inolina- middle voice, in the LXX.; but frequent in tions, and not the grace of God, continue to ole.esical Greek in different senses. St. Paul be the motive power with them. uses <1<Tpe1roµ,vos in the same sense in Ver. 8.-And like for now, A.V.; with- 1 Tim. vi. 20. " This command shows that stand for resist, A. V.; corrupted ill mind the apostle tree.ta the symptoms of the last for of corrupt mind.a, A.V. And; but would times as in some respects present" (Alford). be better. Jannes e.nd Jambres; the tradi- Wi~h this oe.tena of epithets comp. Rom. tional names of the magicie.ns who opposed i. 29-31; and, though of an opposite Moses ; and, if Origen can be trusted, there ohe.re.oter, the string of e.djecti ves iu Wied, we.a e.n apocryphal book called by their vii. 22, 23. names. But Theodoret ascribes their names Ver. 6.-Theae for thi.s sort, A. V.; that to e.n unwritten Jewish tradition. Their Cortohich, A.V.; take for lead, A.V.; by for names a.re found in the Targum of Jone.than with, A.V. Creep into (,va6vovTEs); here on Exod. vii. 11 ; x.xii. 2:l ; e.nd a.re also only in the New Testament. It he.s the mentioned, in conjunction with Moses, with sense of "enea.king into," " insinuating some ve.riation in the name of Jambres, by themselves into," as in Xenophon, 'Cyrop.,' Pliny (' Hist. Nat.,' xxxi 2), who probably 2. 1. 18. Take oaptive (aiXJ'aAWTe6ovTEs); got bis information from a work of Sergius BS in Eph. iv. 8. The other form, aixµa,\orr[- Pe.ulus on me.gic, of which the materials (oVTes, which is that of the R.T., is in Luke were furnished by Elyme.e the _sorcerer lli. 24 ; Rom. vii. 23; 2 Cor. x. 5. The (Acts xiii. 6--8). Withstood (a.11T<fT'nlt1u); word well deaoribes the blind surrender of the same word as is usoo of Elyme.e in the will and conscience to such crafty Acts xiii. 8 (so eh. iv. 15 and elsewhere). teachers. Silly women (Ta. -yu11a11<dp,a, dimi- Corrupted in mind ( ICaTE,PBapµeva T~II IIOVII) ; nutive of -yu,,,j); nowhere else in the New elsewhere onlv in :l Pet. ii. 12, in the IBJlse Testament or LXX., but is used by some late of " perishing,'' being " utterly dellhoyed,'' Greek authors. It is a term of contempt- which is the proper meaning of ,c11Tat/)811po- he will not oe.11 them -yu11ai'1<as-they are µa1. Here in a more.I sense 1<a.Te,PIJ'!f'µ<110, only -y1111a11<dp111.. In the passages quoted by Tb11 voiiv means men whose understanding is Alford from Irenmus and Epiphanius, the gone, and perished, as a..,pBapµe'.110s T~I" uo71v women made use of by the lo.ter Gnostice means one whose hearing has perished-who are called 'Y""'""ap"•· See, too, the striking is deaf. In 1 Tim. vi. 5 St. Paul uses the quotation in the ee.me noto from Jerome, more common 81E,P8apµ<110111. Beprobate speoifying by ne.me the women whom Nioo- (ci8&1<1µa); as Titus i. 16, and elsewhere le.e ot' Antioch, Maroion, Montanus, and frequently in St. Pnul'e Epistles. It is just others employed as their instrumenta in the contrary to B61<1µos (eh. ii. 15, note). spreading their abominable heresies. So Ver. 9.-Evident for mafli/eat, A.V.; came true is St. Paul's foreo,1st in the text. to b6 for was, A. V. Shall prooeed (rpo1<0,j,ou- Laden with sins (,nuwpeuµ,va aµapTi,m); "'") ; as eh. ii. 16 (where see note) and ver. elsewhere only in Rom. xii. 20, "heap ooals of 18, The apostle's meaning here is, 1111 ex- tire." It ooours in Aristotle and other Greek plained by the example of the magioiane, writen in the sense of heaping one thing that heresies shall not prevail age.inst the u~n another, e.nd henping up anything truth. 'E,rl ""''"" means beyond the point tn*b eomething else. The lut le the sense indicated in his Jcecription of their future 42 THE SECOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. 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