“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. — The decisive indictment: these possess morphōsis eusebeias (form of godliness) but deny its dynamis (power). External religion masks internal apostasy. Timothy must apotropē (turn away from) such counterfeits.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:5
He had said in the former Epistle, that “the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith” 1 Timothy 4:1-2; and elsewhere in this Epistle he foretells that something of this kind will afterwards happen; and here again he does the same thing: “This know, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” And this he pronounces not only from the future, but from the past; “As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses.” And again from reasoning; “In…
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