2 Timothy 3:1-7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:6

For of this sort are they - He here refers to false teachers and their insinuating manners, practising upon weak women, who, seeing in them such a semblance of piety, entertain them with great eagerness, and at last become partakers with them in their impurities. Among the Jews there are remarkable cases of this kind on record, and not a few of them among the full fed monks of the Romish Church. But in what sect or party have not such teachers been occasionally found? yet neither Judaism,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:7

Ever learning - From their false teachers, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, because that teaching never leads to the truth; for, although there was a form of godliness, which gave them a sort of authority to teach, yet, as they denied the power of godliness, they never could bring their votaries to the knowledge of the saving power of Christianity. There are many professors of Christianity still who answer the above description. They hear, repeatedly hear, it may be,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:1

Verse 1 1But know this By this prediction he intended still more to sharpen his diligence; for, when matters go on to our wish, we become more careless; but necessity urges us keenly. Paul, therefore informs him, that the Church will be subject to terrible diseases, which will require in the pastors uncommon fidelity, diligence, watchfulness, prudence, and unwearied constancy; as if he enjoined Timothy to prepare for arduous and deeply anxious contests which awaited him. And hence we learn,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:2

Verse 2 2For men will be It is proper to remark, first, in what he makes the hardship of those “dangerous” or “troublesome” times to consist; not in war, nor in famine, nor in diseases, nor in any calamities or inconveniences to which the body is incident, but in the wicked and depraved actions of men. And, indeed, nothing is so distressingly painful to godly men, and to those who truly fear God, as to behold such corruptions of morals; for, as there is nothing which they value more highly than... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:5

Verse 5 5From those turn away. This exhortation sufficiently shows that Paul does not speak of a distant posterity, nor foretell what would happen many ages afterwards; but that, by pointing out present evils, he applies to his own age what he had said about “the last times;” for how could Timothy “turn away” from those who were not to arise till many centuries afterwards? So then, from the very beginning of the gospel, the Church must have begun to be affected by such corruptions. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:6

Verse 6 6Of those are they who creep into families You would say, that here Paul intentionally draws a lively picture of the order of monks. But without saying a single word about monks, those marks by which Paul distinguishes false and pretended teachers are sufficiently clear; creeping into houses, snares for catching silly women, mean flattery, imposing upon people by various superstitions. These marks it is proper to observe carefully, if we wish to distinguish between useless drones and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Timothy 3:7

Verse 7 7Always learning, while yet they never can come to the knowledge of the truth That fluctuation between various desires, of which he now speaks, is when, having nothing solid in themselves, they are tossed about in all directions. They “learn,” he says, as people do who are under the influence of curiosity, and with a restless mind, but in such a manner as never to arrive at any certainty or truth. It is ill-conducted study, and widely different from knowledge. And yet such persons think... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:1

But know this for this know also , A.V.; grievous for perilous , A.V. Grievous times ( καιροὶ χαλεποί ). "Grievous" is not a very good rendering. "Perilous," though in some contexts it is a right rendering, is a little too restricted here. "Difficult," "trying," "uneasy," or the like, is nearer the sense. They are times when a Christian hardly knows which way to turn or what to do. He has to live under a constant sense of hindrance and difficulty of one sort or another. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:1

The perilous times of the apostasy. The apostle next proceeds to predict a further progress in error, with the view of putting Timothy on his guard and sharpening his diligence. I. THE PERIOD OF THIS APOSTASY . "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come." 1 . The language does not point to the closing days of the Christian dispensation , for it resembles the language of the Apostle John—"It is the last time"—where the present is undoubtedly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Timothy 3:1-17

Holy Scripture the strength of the man of God. There is marvellous force in the application to the Christian bishop and evangelist of the title THE MAN OF God When we remember the course of faithful and untiring labour, and patient unflinching suffering, which was run by those to whom alone this title was given in the Old Testament—Moses and Samuel and Elijah, and other prophets of God—we feel at once that the application of this title to the ministers of Christ under the New... read more

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