2 TIMOTHY 2:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.”
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. — Timothy must paraíteomai (refuse) mōrai kai apaideutoi zetēseis (foolish and ignorant questions). Such disputations generate machē (quarrels), their natural outcome.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:23
Do you see how he everywhere draws him off from questions; not that he was not able to overthrow them; for he was well able. For had he not been able he would have said, Be diligent, that you may be able to refute them; as when he says, “Give attendance to reading, for by so doing you shall both save yourself and them that hear you.” 1 Timothy 4:13-16 But he knew that it was useless to enter at all into these disputes, that there will be no end of it, save contentions,…
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