2 TIMOTHY 2:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;”
correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, — The methodology: paideuō (correct) opponents with praupatheia (gentleness). Correction aims at metanoia (repentance) and epignōsis (experiential knowledge) of truth—transformation rather than victory.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 2:25
For he that teaches must be especially careful to do it with meekness. For a soul that wishes to learn cannot gain any useful instruction from harshness and contention. For when it would apply, being thus thrown into perplexity, it will learn nothing. He who would gain any useful knowledge ought above all things to be well disposed towards his teacher, and if this be not previously attained, nothing that is requisite or useful can be accomplished. And no one can be well…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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