George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Timothy 2:16
Vain speeches, or vain babbling.[7] He seems to hint at disciples of the magician [Simon Magus], and their fables. (Witham)
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Vaniloquia, Greek: kenophonias.
Vain speeches, or vain babbling.[7] He seems to hint at disciples of the magician [Simon Magus], and their fables. (Witham)
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Vaniloquia, Greek: kenophonias.
Verse 16. _SHUN PROFANE_ AND _VAIN BABBLINGS_] This is the character he gives of the preaching of the false teachers. Whatever was not agreeable to the _doctrine of truth_ was, in the sight of God, _e...
BUT SHUN PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS, - see the notes at 1 Timothy 6:20. FOR THEY WILL INCREASE UNTO MORE UNGODLINESS - Their tendency is to alienate the soul from God, and to lead to impiety. Such kin...
II. FAITH'S CONFLICT AND THE BELIEVER'S PATH CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The apostle's charge (2 Timothy 2:1)_ 2. As soldier and husbandman (2 Timothy 2:3) 3. Identification with Christ (2 Timothy 2:8) 4
CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING PRESENT ERROR. The false teaching considered in this epistle is partly present and partly future. Paul's first charge relates to the former type. For its _general characte...
THE CHAIN OF TEACHING (2 Timothy 2:1-2)...
Put out every effort to present yourself to God as one who has stood the test, as a workman who has no need to be ashamed, as one who rightly handles the word of truth. Avoid these godless chattering...
SHUN. Greek. _periistemi_. See Acts 25:7. PROFANE. See 1 Timothy 1:9. VAIN BABBLINGS. See 1 Timothy 6:20. INCREASE. advance. Greek. _prokopto._ See...
_shun_ The word is the same as in Titus 3:9 where reasons are given for rendering it AVOID. The present tense here and in 2 Timothy 2:14 are all the more forcible for the aorists which come in between...
The Especial Sphere of both Personal and Ministerial Zeal is (1) Pure Doctrine, (2) a Pure Life The proper connexion is to be sought in the earlier part of the previous passage, particularly 2 Timoth...
CHARGE II. SHUN VAIN SPECULATIONS...
ΤᾺΣ ΔῈ ΒΕΒΉΛΟΥΣ ΚΕΝΟΦΩΝΊΑΣ ΠΕΡΙΊΣΤΑΣΟ, _but shun profane babblings_, such being the direct opposite of _the word of truth_, which it is Timothy’s business _rightly to divide_. Cp. the parallel passage...
ΒΈΒΗΛΟΣ (G952) доступный для каждого, мирской (_см._ 1 Timothy 4:7). ΚΕΝΟΦΩΝΊΑ (G2757) пустой или бессмысленный разговор. В древнем мире считалось, что качество и количество речей человека демонстрир...
e. As a workman 2 Timothy 2:14-19 _TEXT 2:14-19_ 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting...
But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. SHUN, [ periistaso (G4026)] - 'stand clear of, and superior to.' VAIN - opposed to 'of the truth' (2 Timothy 2:...
8 The literal resurrection of Christ as the Seed of David seems to be the apostle's answer to the theory of a spiritual resurrection. The Seed of David can be nothing less than a literal Man. 10 'The...
2 Timothy had been with the apostle in Rome, whence he was probably sent to Philippi (Php_2:19). The most loving and intimate relations existed between them, and Paul continually refers to him as his...
2:16 they (i-7) i e. _ those_ who speak thus....
THEY] the heterodox teachers. 17, 18. HYMENAEUS] 1 Timothy 1:20. Of PHILETUS nothing more is known. Their heresy may have been an allegorical explanation of the Resurrection as the new life of the sou...
EXHORTATIONS TO FLRMNESS, UNCONTENTIOUSNESS, AND PERSEVERANCE 1-26. The duties of God's ministers are, (1) to maintain the faith against assailants and seducers (2 Timothy 2:1; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timot...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 APPEAL TO BE STRONG AND TO SUFFER (2:1-13) V1 You then, my child, be strong with the help of Christ Jesus...
CHAPTER 32 THE NEED OF A SOLEMN CHARGE AGAINST A CONTROVERSIAL SPIRIT, OF DILIGENCE FREE FROM SHAME, AND OF A HATRED OF THE PROFANITY WHICH WRAPS UP ERROR IN THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH. - 2 Timothy 2:14 W...
Discourage the new false teaching by precept and example. There is no need, however, that you should despair of the Church. It is founded upon a rock, in spite of appearances. Take a broad view of the...
κενοφωνίας : See on 1 Timothy 6:20. Here, as Bengel suggests, κενο - is contrasted with ἀληθείας, φωνίας with λόγον. περιίστασο : _shun, devita_, “ _Give them a wide berth_ ” (Plummer), also in Titus...
“APPROVED UNTO GOD” 2 Timothy 2:10 _ The elect_, 2 Timothy 2:10: The Apostle sketches the experiences of the elect soul. It must endure, suffer, and die with Christ, that out of its surrender may com...
In order to fulfil the ideal revealed in the instructions, Timothy was charged to "be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The apostle employed three figures of speech, the soldier, the...
URGENT MATTERS IN THE MIDST OF DOCTRINAL ERROR Paul charged his son in the gospel with reminding those who would listen to him of the truths listed in the previous verses. Any charge placed before one...
(f) But shun profane [and] vain babblings: (10) for they will increase unto more ungodliness. (f) Mark and watch, and see that they do not creep on further. (10) He reveals the subtilty of Satan, wh...
(14) В¶ Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. (15) Study to shew thyself approved...
Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
16_But avoid profane and unmeaning noises _My opinion as to the import of these words has been stated in my commentary on the last chapter of the First Epistle to Timothy; and my readers will find it...
The truth was the especial treasure committed to him; and he has not only to keep it, as we have seen, but to take care that it was propagated and communicated to others after him, and perhaps still f...
BUT SHUN PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS,.... The ministry of false teachers is mere babbling; a voice, and nothing else, as the man said of his nightingale; a sound of words, but no solid matter in them;...
But shun profane _and_ vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Ver. 16. _But shun_] Gr. περμστασο, go round about them, viz. to suppress them on every side. St Peter calls them...
_But shun profane and vain babblings_ See on 1 Timothy 1:4; _for they will increase_, &c. Though the evil of some of them may not immediately appear, and they may seem trifling rather than mischievous...
THEY WILL INCREASE; or they, that is, the men who are given to these babblings, will proceed to more ungodliness. Compare chap. 2 Timothy 3:13....
BUT SHUN PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS, FOR THEY WILL INCREASE UNTO MORE UNGODLINESS....
THE PROPER DIVIDING OF THE WORD OF GOD AS CONTRASTED WITH THE PRACTICE OF THE ERRORISTS....
If in chapter 1 we have seen the blessedness of God's abiding presence in His beloved saints - whatever may be the human failure everywhere - now in chapter 2, verses 1 to 13, there is a resulting con...
14-21 Those disposed to strive, commonly strive about matters of small moment. But strifes of words destroy the things of God. The apostle mentions some who erred. They did not deny the resurrection,...
OLBGrk; BUT SHUN PROFANE AND VAIN BABBLINGS; by these dishonourable terms the apostle defameth all impertinent discourses in discharge of the ministerial office, such as he had called _fables and endl...
Pseudo-Cyprian Exhortation to Repentance And the servant of the Lord ought not to strive; but to be gentle, docile to all men, patient with modesty, correcting those who resist, lest at any time God...
2 Timothy 2:16 But G1161 shun G4026 (G5732) profane G952 babblings G2757 for G1063 increase G4298 (G5692) to...
2 Timothy 2:16. SHUN. The word gives the sense, but hardly the force of the Greek: ‘ _Draw back from,'_ as a group of men draw back from something horrible and loathsome. WILL EAT. Again a strictly...
SHUN (περιιστασο). See Titus 3:9.BABBLINGS (κενοφωνιας). See 1 Timothy 6:20.WILL PROCEED (προκοψουσιν). Future active of προκοπτω, "will cut forward." See Galatians 1:14;...
2 Timothy 2:15. _Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth._ This is a metaphor taken from the action of the priest at the...
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2 Timothy 2:1. _Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus._ Be strong in the Lord, and in every virtue. This is chiefly repeated from Ephesians 6:10. 2 Timothy 2:3. _Endure hardness,_ or hardship...
KEEP AWAY FROM. See note on 1 Timothy 6:20_. Lipscomb_ says: "Everything not commanded by God in the Scriptures may safely be placed under this head." Nothing ought to be bound upon Christians as arti...
_Shun profane and vain babblings._ SHUN The word rendered “shun” is a strong one, and signifies, literally, to make a circuit so as to avoid; or as Alford paraphrases it, “the meaning seems to come...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 2:14. CHARGING THEM.—Adjure them on their oath of fealty. 2 Timothy 2:15. STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF.—R.V. “Give diligence to present thyself.” The word expresse...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 2:1 _Child _for _son_, A.V.; _strengthened _for _strong, _A.V. BE STRENGTHENED (ἐνδυναμοῦ)_; _more exactly (as Huther), _become strong, _or, which is the same thing, _strengthe...
Ver. 16. Here, again, the apostle returns to the things to be avoided the corrupt practices of false teachers: _But profane babblings shun_ περιΐστασο, stand aloof from, as one naturally does in respe...
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace (2 Timothy 2:1) You see, it is legalism that is threatening the church. This idea that you can work yourself into divine favor. So "be strong in the gra...
1 Corinthians 15:33; 1 Corinthians 5:6; 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:20;...
Shun [π ε ρ ι ι σ τ α σ ο]. P o. In Pastorals, here and Titus 3:9. Originally, to place round; to stand round. In the middle voice, to turn one's self about, as for the purpose of avoiding something :...
THE CHRISTIAN'S TITLES 2 Timothy 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will discuss the seven distinctive names under which Paul addressed his son in the faith. As a prelude to these seven names, it might be h...
OUR GUIDE AMONG THE WRECKAGE 2 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:14; 2 Timothy 4:1;...
They — Who babble thus will grow worse and worse....
St. Paul having now finished the exhortatory part of this chapter, and acquainted Timothy what he would have him practise and do, now comes to. dehortation, advising him what he would have him avoid a...