“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy — the sevenfold catalogue of vice diagnoses last-days spirituality: philautoi (self-lovers), philargyri (money-lovers), alazonei (boastful), hyperēphanoi (proud), blasphēmoi (abusive), apeitheis goneusin (disobedient to parents), acharistoi (ungrateful), anosioi (unholy). Internal disorder breeds external transgression.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:2
If any now takes offense at the existence of heretics, let him remember that it was so from the beginning, the devil always setting up error by the side of truth. God from the beginning promised good, the devil came too with a promise. God planted Paradise, the devil deceived, saying, “You shall be as gods.” Genesis 3:5 For as he could show nothing in actions, he made the more promises in words. Such is the character of deceivers. After this were Cain and Abel, then the sons…
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