2 Timothy 4:15

hath greatly withstood The aorist should be read for the perfect, he withstood. There is apparently an antithesis intended between Alexander's -works" of mischief and the Apostle's -words." It does not seem to be false teaching that is referred to therefore, but (we may conjecture) evil action, by stirring up opposition to St Paul's preaching from Ephesus perhaps to Troas, scheming to bring him into trouble, finally rousing the Roman authority, which since the Roman fire no longer regarded Christianity as a religio licita, so as to bring about his arrest. There might be thus a special point in the warning given to Timothy, lest Alexander should be on his track as he set out for Rome.