2 TIMOTHY 2:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.”
Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to quarrel about words, which does not help but only ruins those who listen — Timothy must paraggellō (charge) against logomachiai (word-battles) that achieve no didaskalia (instruction) while destroying (katastrepho) hearers. Contention about lexis (terminology) corrupts edification.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:14
Many of the weaker sort of men give up the effort of faith, and do not endure the deferring of their hope. They seek things present, and form from these their judgment of the future. When therefore their lot here was death, torments, and chains, and yet he says, they shall come to eternal life, they would not have believed, but would have said, “What do you say? When I live, I die; and when I die, I live? You promise nothing on earth, and do you give it in heaven? Little…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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