Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Timothy 4:2
These will depart from the faith, by the hypocrisy of them that speak lies, having their own consciences as senseless and unfeeling as flesh that is seared with an hot iron.
These will depart from the faith, by the hypocrisy of them that speak lies, having their own consciences as senseless and unfeeling as flesh that is seared with an hot iron.
Verse 1 Timothy 4:2. _SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY_] Persons pretending, not only to Divine inspiration, but also to extraordinary degrees of holiness, self-denial, mortification, c., in order to accre...
SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY - ἐν ὑποκρισει ψευδολόγων en hupokrisei pseudologōn. Or rather, “by, or through the hypocrisy of those speaking lies. So it is rendered by Whitby, Benson, Macknight, and...
IV. CONCERNING THE LATTER-DAY APOSTASY CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the Spirit has predicted (1 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. The remedies against apostasy (1 Timothy 4:6) 1 Timothy 4:1 The mystery of godliness h
1 Timothy 4:1 to 1 Timothy 6:2_ A._ THE CHARGE RESPECTING TIMOTHY'S OWN BEHAVIOUR WITHIN THE CHURCH. (_a_) _1 TIMOTHY 4:1_. TIMOTHYS ATTITUDE TO ERROR....
THE SERVICE OF GOD OR THE SERVICE OF SATAN (1 Timothy 4:1-5)...
The Spirit clearly says that in the later times some will desert from the faith, through paying attention to spirits who can do nothing but lead them astray, and to teachings which come from the demon...
SPEAKING, &c.. By (Greek. _en)_ the hypocrisy of liars (Greek. _pseudologos_. Only here). HAVING, &c.. having been seared with. hot iron as to their own conscience. SEARED, &c. Greek. _kauteriazomai...
_speaking lies in hypocrisy_ Rather, as R.V. THROUGH THE HYPOCRISY OF MEN THAT SPEAK LIES, that is, the -false prophets," -many of whom," we read, by the time of the writing of 1 John 4:1, -are gone o...
III. THE DANGERS OF THE FUTURE. 1–6...
ΚΕΚΑΥΣΤΗΡΙΑΣΜΈΝΩΝ. This is the spelling of the best MSS. (אAL); κεκαυτηριασμένων, the spelling of the _text. rec._, is found in CD2GKP &c. 2. ἘΝ ὙΠΟΚΡΊΣΕΙ ΨΕΥΔΟΛΌΓΩΝ. _Through the hypocrisy of men th...
ΎΠΟΚΡΊΣΕΙ _dat. от_ ΎΠΌΚΡΙΣΙΣ (G5272) лицемерие, притворство, обман (TLNT). _Instr. dat._ ΨΕΥΔΟΛΌΓΟΣ (G5573) обманщик, лжец. Некоторым образом это больше, чем просто лжец, так как речь идет об опреде...
_1 TIMOTHY 4:1_, _NOW THE SPIRIT,_ &C.— This passage, perhaps, would be better translated, _But the Spirit speaketh expressly._ He had before been speaking of the _mystery of godliness,_ ch. 1 Timothy...
IV. FALSE TEACHERS 4:1-16 1. THEIR COMING 1 Timothy 4:5 _TEXT 4:1-5_ 1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and d...
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [ En (G1722) hupokrisei (G5272) pseudologoon (G5573)] 'Through (literally, 'in:' the element in which the apostasy has pl...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
1 The signs of the last days are all present with us now. The teaching of deceiving spirits and demons has become one of the great and popular cults of the day. Their deception seems chiefly to take t...
4:2 (b-1) Or, perhaps, 'through those who speak lies,' &c. Otherwise, as translated in text, the Spirit identifies the speaker and the evil spirit which speaks by him, as commonly in the New Testament...
SEARED] RV 'branded.' Their consciences were not made incapable of feeling, but false principles were burnt into them....
VARIOUS DIRECTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS 1-10. A return to, and emphatic reiteration of, the first charge to Timothy (1 Timothy 1:3) against heterodoxy and in favour of true godliness. This form of hetero...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS (4:1-5) V1 The Spirit clearly says that in the last days some people will turn from the *faith...
SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY. — The Greek words here should be translated, _through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies._ The lies that these men utter, refer to their teaching that it was pleasing to...
Over against the future triumph of the truth, assured to us by the finished work of Christ, we must set the opposition, grievous at present, of the Spirit of error. His attacks have been foreseen by t...
ἐν ὑποκρίσει ψευδολόγων : The three genitives ψευδολ. κεκαυστ. κωλ. are coordinate, and refer to the human agents of the seducing spirits and demons. ἐν ὑποκρίσει depends on πνεύμασι and διδασκαλίαις....
REJECT FALSE AND FOOLISH TEACHING 1 Timothy 4:1 We have here the Apostle's forecast of the last times, _i.e_., the condition in which men will find themselves as the age draws to a close. Notwithstan...
Having thus dealt with the Church, the apostle showed Timothy how he was to fulfil his responsibility. He had a duty toward the truth, and therefore toward the Church. In order to correct errors which...
THE COMING APOSTASY Despite the fact that Jesus had been fully shown to be Lord, the Spirit plainly revealed to Paul a coming apostasy. At some time in the future, Paul said some would abandon or dese...
(2) Speaking lies in (b) hypocrisy; having their (c) conscience seared with a hot iron; (2) Even though heretics pretend holiness ever so much, yet they have no conscience. (b) For they will as it w...
_Their conscience seared; hardened: a metaphor from the custom of burning malefactors with a hot iron. (Witham)_...
(1) В¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; (2) Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having th...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
2_Speaking lies in hypocrisy _If these words refer to “demons,” then this word will mean men deceiving through the instigation of the devil. But we may also supply the words, “of men speaking.” He now...
But there would be some who departed from the faith, from this knowledge of the one Creator and Saviour-God Him who was manifested in the flesh. They would attack precisely these points which we have...
SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY,.... Or "through the hypocrisy of those that speak lies"; for the apostle is still speaking of the means by which the apostasy should rise, and get ground; and it should be...
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Ver. 2. _Speaking lies in hypocrisy_] It was grown to a common proverb, "A friar, a liar." One of them undertook to show a...
_Speaking lies in hypocrisy_ Greek, εν υποκρισει ψευδολογων, _by the hypocrisy of them that speak lies._ This is a more literal, and at the same time a more just translation of the words than that giv...
SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY; or, in the hypocrisy of those who speak lies, inculcating on the people as true what they know to be false; such as the power of the priests to forgive sins, the pretended...
THE FALSE DOCTRINES OF THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR REFUTATION....
SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY; HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED WITH A HOT IRON;...
The solemn warning here is in startling contrast to the preciousness of what we have considered as to God manifest in flesh. How cold is the heart of man that he will turn deliberately from a faith so...
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1. Hypocrisy - What is hypocrisy? How can you tell if a person is a hypocrite? Does the presence of hypocrites hinder the g...
THE HUMAN AGENTS WHO SPREAD SUCH ERRORS 1 Timothy 4:2 “By means of the hypocrisy of liars”: “Pretense, outward show, by the hypocritical preaching of liars” _(Arndt p. 845). _“Certainly these false te...
1-5 The Holy Spirit, both in the Old and the New Testament, spoke of a general turning from the faith of Christ, and the pure worship of God. This should come during the Christian dispensation, for t...
The words, as translated by us, are very difficult; for the word which we translate SPEAKING LIES, being the genitive case, will neither agree with _spirits_ nor _doctrines, _ in the former verse, the...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II did she in this way indicate Pandora and these men having their consciences seared[134] The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Holy Apostles If any bishop, or presbyter,...
1 Timothy 4:2 lies G5573 in G1722 hypocrisy G5272 having G2743 their G2398 conscience G4893 iron G2743 (G5772)...
PAUL NOW GIVES A MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT OF WHAT TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY WILL INVOLVE (1 TIMOTHY 4:1 TO 1 TIMOTHY 6:10). It is interesting how much the second half of this letter is patterned on the first. B...
1 Timothy 4:2. SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY. The grammar of the sentence requires a different rendering: ‘ _In,_ or _by, the hypocrisy of men who speak lies_.' HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED AS WITH A...
THROUGH THE HYPOCRISY OF MEN THAT SPEAK LIES (εν υποκρισε ψευδολογων). For υποκρισις, see Galatians 2:13. Ψευδολογος (ψευδησ, λεγω) _Koine_ word from Aristophanes on. Here only in N.T. "A good clas...
CONTENTS: Walk of a good minister of Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Those are good ministers of Jesus Christ who are diligent to instil into the minds of the...
1 Timothy 4:1. _Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,_ “learnedly, openly, perspicuously, and not in shadows, as was the manner of the ancient prophets.” THEOPHYLACT. See the note on 2 Thessalonians 2:1....
THESE TEACHINGS COME FROM. The great mass of mankind are merely deceived, and can be taught the truth of God. But these men are active agents of the Devil. This is examined in notes on _Rev. ch 13._ ...
_Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times._ A GREAT HERESY “The Spirit” referred to is unquestionably the Holy Spirit of God, who had been promised to the Church as its abiding teac...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 4:2 The CONSCIENCES of the false teachers have been SEARED (that is, made insensitive and useless) by their rebellion against the gospel. Compare “good conscience,”...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 Identifying the False Teaching. After his celebration of the spread of the gospel (1 Timothy 3:16), Paul returns to the false teachin
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 4:1. DOCTRINES OF DEVILS.—The term “devils” seems to give the spirit of the apostle’s meaning more accurately than the more literal “demons” would. 1 Timoth...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 _But _for _now_,_ _A.V.; _saith _for _speaketh_,_ _A.V.;_ later _for _the latter_,_ _A.V.;_ fall away _for _depart_,_ _A.V. THE SPIRIT SAITH EXPRESSLY (ῥητῶς);_ _only here...
Ver. 2. Ἐν ὑποκρίσει ψευδολόγων not, as in the Authorized Version, “speaking lies in hypocrisy,” which would take ψευδολόγων as in apposition with the δαιμονίων of the preceding clause, and so would...
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1); Here Paul speaks of a departure fr...
1 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 22:22; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Timothy 3:5; Acts 20:30;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy [ε ν υ π ο κ ρ ι σ ε ι ψ ε υ δ ο λ ο γ ω ν]. Wrong. Rend., through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies. Upokrisiv hypocrisy once in Paul, Galatians 2:13, see note. See also...