2 Timothy 2:24

And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,

Here was given the antidote for the vain and conceited babblings with which some busied themselves, the same being a very noble and beautiful picture of the kind of personality that should be exhibited by God's preachers. The physician or nurse does not respond to the illness of the patients with blows and threats, but with gentleness, forbearance and understanding.