2 Timothy 2:14

2. Timothy’s duty of warning the people against the noisy errors of apostates from the sure foundation, 2 Timothy 2:14-19.

14. These things The entire statement of my gospel, 2 Timothy 2:8-13; namely, Christ’s incarnation and resurrection, with our parallelism thereto.

Them The errorists; especially in regard to the resurrection, 2 Timothy 2:18; who are hitherto unnamed but not far out of mind

Before the Lord 1 Timothy 6:13.

Strive not about words Not practice logomachy, or word-fight. 1 Timothy 6:4. These dreamers, having little real knowledge of the nature of things, formed systems of words for which there was no answering object. The realistic sense of St. Paul rejected such word-fabrics without ceremony.

Subverting Overthrow, as of a house or city.