“For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,”
For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions — the unscrupulous false teachers employ household infiltration: they aichmalōteuō (capture) gynaikaria (women, diminutive suggesting weakness) laden with sins and buffeted by pathē (passions). Social vulnerability makes women targets.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:6
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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