2 TIMOTHY 2:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;”
and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus — the pathological metaphor: false doctrine spreads like gangraina (gangrene), tissue-destroying and communicable. Named heretics (Hymenaeus and Philetus) exemplify this spiritual disease.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:17
It is an evil not to be restrained, not curable by any medicine, it destroys the whole frame. He shows that novelty of doctrine is a disease, and worse than a disease. And here he implies that they are incorrigible, and that they erred not weakly but willfully.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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