“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. — The tragic portrait: perpetual mathēsis (learning) without arriving at epignōsis (true knowledge). Information accumulates while transformation stalls.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:7
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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