2 Timothy 3:1-7

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

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

Adam Clarke

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

Without natural affection - Αστοργοι· Without that affection which parents bear to their young, and which the young bear to their parents. An affection which is common to every class of animals; consequently, men without it are worse than brutes. Truce-breakers - Ασπονδοι· From α , negative, and σπονδη , a libation, because in making treaties libations both of blood and wine were poured out. The word means those who are bound by no promise, held by no engagement, obliged by no... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors - Προδοται· From προ , before, and διδωμι , to deliver up. Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the hands of his enemies their unfortunate countryman and king, Charles the First; a stain which no lapse of ages can wipe out. Heady - Προπετεις· From προ , forwards, and πιπτω , to fall; headstrong, precipitate, rash, inconsiderate. High-minded - Τετυφωμενοι· From τυφος ,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:5

Having a form of godliness - The original word μορφωσις signifies a draught, sketch, or summary, and will apply well to those who have all their religion in their creed, confession of faith, catechism, bodies of divinity, etc., while destitute of the life of God in their souls; and are not only destitute of this life, but deny that such life or power is here to be experienced or known. They have religion in their creed, but none in their hearts. And perhaps to their summary they add a... read more

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