2 Timothée 3:1-9 BDS

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be lovers of their own selves ,.... Not in a good sense, as men may be, and as such are who love their neighbours as themselves, and do that to others they would have done to themselves; and who take all prudent and lawful care to preserve the life and health of their bodies, and seek in a right way the salvation of their immortal souls: but in a bad sense, as such may be said to be, who only love themselves; their love to God, and Christ, and to the saints, being only in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:3

Without natural affection ,.... To parents, or children, or wife; parents thrusting their children into religious houses, cloisters, &c.; against their wills; children leaving their parents without their knowledge or consent; married bishops and priests being obliged to quit their wives, and declare their children spurious; with many other such unnatural actions. Trucebreakers ; or covenant breakers; stirring up princes to break through their treaties and covenants with one another;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors ,.... To their princes and sovereigns, whose deaths they have contrived and compassed, and whom they have assassinated and murdered; and have been betrayers of the secrets of persons, which they have come at by auricular confession to them; and of their best and nearest friends, to preserve and secure themselves. Heady ; rash, daring, bold, and impudent, fit to say and do any thing, though ever so vile and wicked. High, minded ; puffed and swelled up with a vain conceit of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:5

Having a form of godliness ,.... Either a mere external show of religion, pretending great piety and holiness, being outwardly righteous before men, having the mask and visor of godliness; or else a plan of doctrine, a form of sound words, a scheme of truths, which men may have without partaking of the grace of God; and which, with respect to the doctrine of the Trinity, the church of Rome has; or else the Scriptures of truth, which the members of that church have, and profess to hold to,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:6

For of this sort are they which creep into houses ,.... Privily and unawares, in a clandestine manner, and insinuate themselves into families, by fawning and flattering, and under specious pretences to knowledge and virtue. The Syriac version uses a word, from whence comes חולדא , "Chulda", which signifies "a weasel"; suggesting, that their entrance into houses was like to the way of that creature, which is sometimes covered, and sometimes open: there was also a gate of the temple, which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:7

Ever learning ,.... Some new notion and practice or another: and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; partly because of the teachers, which they heap up to themselves, who are unapt to teach, are blind and ignorant guides, and know not the truth, but are enemies to it, and resist it; and partly because of themselves, the sins they are laden, and the lusts they are led away with, which hinder them from coming to the knowledge of the truth. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:8

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses ,.... These were not Jews, who rose up and opposed Moses, as Dathan and Abiram did, as some have thought; but Egyptian magicians, the chief of those that Pharaoh sent for, when Moses and Aaron came before him, and wrought miracles; and who did in like manner by their enchantments, Exodus 7:11 upon which place the Targum of Jonathan has these words: "and Pharaoh called the wise men and the magicians; and Janis and Jambres, the magicians of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:9

But they shall proceed no further ,.... They may proceed to more ungodliness, and wax worse and worse in error; but they shall proceed no further than the magicians of Egypt, who did lying wonders, hardened Pharaoh's heart, and deceived him and the Egyptians; but could not destroy the Israelites, nor hinder their departure out of Egypt, when their time was come: so these wicked men do false miracles, harden the popes of Rome, and deceive the nations subject to them; but they cannot deceive... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:1

In the last days - This often means the days of the Messiah, and is sometimes extended in its signification to the destruction of Jerusalem, as this was properly the last days of the Jewish state. But the phrase may mean any future time, whether near or distant. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2

For men shall be - The description in this and the following verses the Papists apply to the Protestants; the Protestants in their turn apply it to the Papists; Schoettgen to the Jews; and others to heretics in general. There have been both teachers and people in every age of the Church, and in every age of the world, to whom these words may be most legitimately applied. Both Catholics and Protestants have been lovers of their own selves, etc.; but it is probable that the apostle had some... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2

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