ACTS 20:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”
'Even from your own number some will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them' — Internally-arising deceivers (ek tōn idion, from among yourselves) prove more dangerous than external threats. The perversion of truth (diastrepō, to distort) for personal following suggests proto-Gnostic or charismatic aberrations.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:30
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Acts 20:29 Again he engages (ἐ πιστρέφει) them from another quarter, from the things which should come after: as when he says, We wrestle not against flesh and blood. After my departing, he says, grievous wolves shall enter in among you Ephesians 6:12; twofold the evil, both that he himself would not be present, and that others would assail them. Then why depart, if you…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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