Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Timothy 3:1
In the last days — The time of the gospel dispensation, commencing at the time of our Lord's death, is peculiarly styled the last days. Grievous — Troublesome and dangerous.
In the last days — The time of the gospel dispensation, commencing at the time of our Lord's death, is peculiarly styled the last days. Grievous — Troublesome and dangerous.
CHAPTER III. _Dangerous times in the latter days, from the apostasy and_ _wickedness of men, of whom an affecting description is given_, 1-7. _It shall happen to them as to Jannes and Jambres, who...
THIS KNOW ALSO - The “object” of this reference to the perilous times which were to occur, was evidently to show the necessity of using every precaution to preserve the purity of the church, from the...
III. THE LAST DAYS AND THEIR PERILS CHAPTER 3 __ 1. The characteristics of the last days (2 Timothy 3:1) 2. What the last days mean for the true believer (2 Timothy 3:8) 3. The need of the Word of...
2 Timothy 3:1 to 2 Timothy 4:8. CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING FUTURE ERROR. (_a_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:1. FUTURE ERROR AND ITS PRESENT GERMS. Timothy must consider future as well as present dangers. As the Seco...
TIMES OF TERROR (2 Timothy 3:1) _ 3:1 You must realize this--that in the last days difficult times will set in._ The early Church lived in an age when the time was waxing late; they expected the Sec...
KNOW. App-132. IN. Greek. _en_. App-104. LAST DAYS. See Acts 2:17. PERILOU. = hard, difficult, grievous. Greek. _chelepos,_ Only here and Matthew 8:28. TIMES. seasons. App-196....
Appeal to Timothy for pure life in view of the worse days and lives to come The same three thoughts are still in St Paul's mind, viz. (1) his own life's work and suffering now closed, (2) Timothy's l...
_This know also_ Lit., -take notice of this," the present tense. Our Lord in Luke 12:39 has the same formula. _in the last days_ -Not only the very last days, towards the end of the world, but in gene...
THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE FUTURE...
ΓΊΝΩΣΚΕ. Lachmann reads γινώσκετε with AG g, but nearly all other authorities support the singular γίνωσκε; γινώσκετε, indeed, does not yield any tolerable sense. 1. In this melancholy forecast the Ap...
DISCOURSE: 2251 SELF-LOVE REPROBATED 2 Timothy 3:1. _This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves_. THERE is in the inspired writings f...
THIS KNOW ALSO,— What follows is thought by some to contain part of the prophesy concerning the grand apostacy which was to happen in the latter times. If we keep our eye too closely upon the place, a...
PART TWO _Warnings 3:1-4:5_ 1. RECOGNIZE THE COMING APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:1-9 _TEXT 3:1-9_ 1 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come, 2 For men shall be lovers of self, lover...
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. The indications of the future increase as we approach the close. After the Gospel doctrines have been put in the clearest light in t...
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...
WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS REGARDING THE LAST DAYS 1-9. In the days immediately preceding the Second Coming, the Lord had taught that iniquity would abound. St. Paul reminds Timothy of this truth as a...
IN THE LAST DAYS] 'But of that day and that hour knoweth no man' (Mark 13:32), not a St. Paul, not a St. John (1 John 2:18). 5. A FORM OF GODLINESS] an outside appearance of it. DENYING THE POWER THER...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 EVIL PERSONS IN THE LAST DAYS (3:1-9) V1 You should be aware that in the last days life will be very diffi...
III. (1) THIS KNOW ALSO. — Better rendered, _But know this._ The Apostle had warned Timothy (2 Timothy 2:3) not to allow fear of oncoming peril and trouble to paralyse his efforts in the Master’s caus...
CHAPTER 33 THE LAST DAYS-THE BEARING OF THE MENTION OF JANNES AND JAMBRES ON THE QUESTION OF INSPIRATION AND THE ERRORS CURRENT IN EPHESUS. - 2 Timothy 3:1; 2 Timothy 3:8 IN the first chapter the Apo...
Evil times are upon us; we have indeed amongst us specimens of the perennial impostor, worthy successors of Jannes and Jambres. The shortlived nature of their success, will be, however, patent to all....
ἐν ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐνστήσονται : Although St. Paul had abandoned his once confident expectation that the Lord would come again during his own lifetime, it is plain that here, as in 1 Timothy 4:1, he...
A DARK PICTURE OF EVIL MEN 2 Timothy 3:1 The last days of the present age are to be black and sorrowful. Sinful rejection of Christ will come to a head. We must not be misled by the wide-spread profe...
Clearly seeing trouble coming from the teaching of those who were ''holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof," the apostle referred to his own manner of life and service as aff...
A DESCRIPTION OF THE COMING APOSTATES Paul told Timothy to keep in mind that during the Christian age times of great stress would come for the Christ's disciples. The great stress would come because o...
This (1) know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (1) The seventh admonition: we may not hope for a Church in this world without corruption: but there will be rather great abundanc...
Know. Do not be troubled at the many evils, persecutions, and heresies, which rise up against the Church. There have ever existed such since the Church was first established, and such ever will exist....
CONTENTS The Apostle in this Chapter, foretells of perilous Times. He speaks of certain Enemies of the Truth: and closeth with a warm Recommendation of the Holy Scriptures, as making wise unto Salvat...
(1) В¶ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2) For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unh...
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...
1_But 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 inform...
Now this evil influence would too surely be exercised. The power of the holy truth of God would be lost in the assembly and among Christians; and those who bore this name would become (under the influ...
THIS KNOW ALSO,.... That not only men of bad principles and practices are in the churches now, as before described in the preceding chapter, but that in succeeding ages there would be worse men, if po...
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. Ver. 1. _Perilous times_] Gr. καιροι χαλεποι, hard times. Hard hearts make hard times. _Eiusmodi tempera descripsit_ (saith Casaubon o...
The apostle, at the close of the preceding chapter, having intimated to Timothy that false teachers did and would arise in the church, he, in the beginning of this chapter, foretels that in future tim...
IN THE LAST DAYS; see note to 1 Timothy 4:1....
False Teachers and False Brethren of the Last Days. 2 Timothy 3:1 A description of the dangerous teachers:...
THIS KNOW ALSO, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES SHALL COME....
When Paul wrote this to Timothy, "the last days" had not yet come, so it is evident that the epistle is not written strictly for Timothy personally, but for every individual believer who would follow...
1-9 Even in gospel times there would be perilous times; on account of persecution from without, still more on account of corruptions within. Men love to gratify their own lusts, more than to please G...
2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3 2 TIMOTHY 3:1 The apostle foretelleth the evil characters that should appear in the last days. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6 He describeth the enemies of the truth, 2 TIMOTHY 3:10 propoundeth unto...
Tertullian On Modesty But as the conquering power of things evil is on the increase-which is the characteristic of the last times[2] Tertullian On Fasting Grant that from the time of John the Parac...
2 Timothy 3:1 But G1161 know G1097 (G5720) this G5124 that G3754 in G1722 last G2078 days G2250 perilous...
SECTION 3. THOSE WHO ARE TRULY THE LORD'S MUST EQUIP THEMSELVES ACCORDINGLY, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF THE GRIEVOUS TIMES THAT ARE COMING (2 TIMOTHY 2:19 TO 2 TIMOTHY 3:17). Having called on him to endure...
2 Timothy 3:1. IN THE LAST DAYS. The words imply, as do many other passages in the New Testament, the belief that the end of the world's history was not far off, that the then state of the world prese...
KNOW THIS (τουτο γινωσκε). See 1 Corinthians 11:3; Philippians 1:12.IN THE LAST DAYS (εν εσχαταις ημεραις). See James 5:3;...
KNOW Apostasy, Summary: Apostasy, "falling away," is the act of professed Christians who deliberately reject revealed truth (1) as to the deity of Jesus Christ, and (2) redemption through His aton...
2 Timothy 3:1 Christian Use of the Old Testament. We stop at the last epistle of Paul to Timothy with something of the same interest with which one pauses at the last hamlet of the cultivated valley...
2 Timothy 3:1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,...
CONTENTS: Apostasy predicted. The believer's resource, the Scriptures. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, Jannes, Jambres, Moses. CONCLUSION: The last days of the Gospel dispensation will be perilous...
2 Timothy 3:1. _In the last days perilous times shall come._ So the Spirit expressly spake when the measure of the jews should be full, when they should even deliver up their relatives to death, and w...
REMEMBER THIS. "I have told you before about the apostasy which is taking place (Ephesians 4:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:7)." THERE WILL BE DIFFICULT TIMES. See note on 1 Timothy 4:1. The entire Christian A...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 3:1 LAST DAYS. As Acts 2:17 indicates, “the last days” began with the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost (see note on 1
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 3:1. IN THE LAST DAYS.—In the time just before the Lord’s appearing, in which wickedness will come to a head—a head that will be crushed. PERILOUS TIMES SHA...
EXPOSITION 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," thou...
CHAPTER III Ver. 1. _This know,_ (It is scarcely worth while to advert to the plural reading of A, F, γινω ́ σκετε, strangely preferred by Lachmann and Huther; for γι ́ νωσκε has the support of א, C,...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Second Timothy chapter three? Paul said to Timothy, This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come (2 Timothy 3:1). It is interesting that the Scri...
1 John 2:18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 3:3; 2 The
Comp. the beginning of 1 Timothy 4. This know [τ ο υ τ ο γ ι ν ω σ κ ε]. The phrase N. T. o. Comp. Paul's ginwskein uJmav boulomai I would have you to know, Philippians 1:12; and qelw de uJmav eiJuden...
As if our apostle had said "O my son Timothy, be not thou discouraged, neither let any of thy successors be dismayed, at the sects and schisms, at the heresies and blasphemies, at the vice and impiety...