“Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;”
treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — the final tier: prodotai (traitors), procheiroi (reckless), tetyphōmenoi (puffed up), philēdonoi (pleasure-lovers) rather than philotheoi (God-lovers). Inverted priorities corrupt all relationships.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:4
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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