Verse 8
8. Jannes and Jambres The traditional names of the magicians who at Memphis withstood Moses with their false miracles opposed to the true.
Exodus 7:11; Exodus 7:22. Origen says, that the account was preserved in a secret, or apocryphal, Jewish volume entitled “Jannes and Jambres.” The names are found, variously spelled, in the Targum of Jonathan on Exodus 7:11, and Numbers 21:22. Says Alford: “They were the sons of Balaam prophesied to Pharaoh the birth of Moses, in consequence of which he gave the order for the destruction of the Jewish children and thenceforward appear as the counsellors of much of the evil in Egypt, and in the desert after the Exodus which happened to Israel. They were variously reported to have perished in the Red Sea, or to have been killed in the tumult consequent on the making the golden calf, which they had advised. Origen (‘Contra Cels., 4:51, vol. i, p. 543’) mentions the Pythagorean Noumenius as relating the history of Jannes and Jambres; so also Euseb., (Praep. Evang., 9:8, vol. iii, [Migne,] p. 412 . )” Pliny (“H. Nat., 30:1”) says: “There is another performance of magic, namely, by Moses, and Jannez and Jotapez, among the Jews, but many thousands of years after Zoroaster.”
Reprobate Rejected, not able to stand the test when tried by the true doctrine of Christ as summarized in 2 Timothy 2:8-13.
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