2 Timothy 3:14. Thou hast learned, and hast been assured of. As in other cases, the English perfect hides the force of the Greek. Better, ‘Thou didst learn and wast persuaded of.'
From whom. The received text gives the singular, the better MSS. the plural, The former would point to St. Paul, the latter to Lois and Eunice as well, perhaps (looking to the ‘from a child' of the next verse) to them chiefly.
2 TIMOTHY 3:14 ti,nwn {B} In order to magnify the apostle Paul’s role as Timothy’s instructor, the plural was changed to the singular....
Verse 14. _BUT CONTINUE THOU_] No man, however well instructed in the things of God, or grounded in Divine grace, is out of the reach of temptation, apostasy, and final ruin; hence the necessity of wa...
BUT CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS WHICH THOU HAST LEARNED AND HAST BEEN ASSURED OF - To wit, the truths of religion. Timothy had been taught those truths when a child, and he had been confirmed in them...
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...
(_b_) 2 TIMOTHY 3:10. TIMOTHY'S SAFEGUARDS. Grave as these dangers are, however, Timothy has a double safeguard. (_a)_ His present difficult task does not take him by surprise. When, at Lystra (Acts 1...
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...
But as for you, remain loyal to the things which you have learned, and in which your belief has been confirmed, for you know from whom you learned them, and you know that from childhood you have known...
CONTINUE. abide. Greek _meno._ See p. 1511. BAST LEARNED. didst learn. HAST BEEN, &c.. west assured of. Greek. _pistoemai._ Only here. KNOWING. App-182. Li, OF. from. App-101. WHOM. App-124....
The appeal for pure life and doctrine in view both of St Paul's own past and the evil future The connexion is: -You were trained to a life the opposite of all this, in learning to copy me, in learnin...
_But continue thou_ -Thou" emphatic; -continue," better ABIDE, i.e. make no downward progress, go not astray: the construction of the next clause illustrates the brevity of the Greek use of the relati...
ΤΊΝΩΝ. So אAC*GP d e g = ‘from what teachers,’ i.e. Lois and Eunice; the rec. text has τίνος = ‘from whom,’ i.e. St Paul himself, with CcD2EKL f and the remaining versions. The following clause shews,...
TIMOTHY IS COMMENDED FOR HIS LOYALTY AND ENCOURAGED TO ENDURE...
ΜΈΝΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать. _Praes. imper._ призывает к постоянному отношению, ΈΜΑΘΕΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учиться, ΈΠΙΣΤΏΘΗΣ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4...
KNOWING OF WHOM THOU HAST LEARNED,— Meaning himself, but modestly declining to say so. Timothy was to continue in these things, because he knew of whom he had learned them,—namely, of a true apostle;...
WITHSTAND THE APOSTASY 2 Timothy 3:10-17 _TEXT 3:10-17_ 10 But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, 11 persecutions, sufferings; what things befell...
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; BUT CONTINUE THOU - whatever they do. Resuming the thread (2 Timothy 3:10)...
12 This is a crucial test of our true state. Are we suffering persecution? If not, are we in earnest in our will to live devoutly in Christ Jesus? All who tread this path will be persecuted. Paul hims...
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...
EXHORTATION. Timothy was well instructed in the OT. and in the gospel preached by St. Paul, and he must 'abide in the things that he had learnt and been assured of.'...
OF WHOM THOU HAST LEARNED _them_] From Eunice and Lois....
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...
BUT CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS WHICH THOU HAST LEARNED. — But Timothy, on the other hand, was to continue in the things he had learned. Evil teaching would become worse; the opposition to truth would...
CHAPTER 34 THE PERILS OF RATIONALISM AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A LIFELONG CONTACT WITH TRUTH-THE PROPERTIES OF INSPIRED WRITINGS. - 2 Timothy 3:14 FOR the second time in this paragraph the Apostle...
σὺ δὲ μένε : Both σύ and μένε are in strong contrast to the πονηροὶ ἄνθρωποι and προκόψουσιν of 2 Timothy 3:13. The exhortation is illustrated by 2 John 1:9, πᾶς ὁ προάγων, καὶ μὴ μένων ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ τ...
I am not really uneasy about your steadfastness. You joined me as a disciple from spiritual and moral inducements only. The persecutions you saw me endure you knew to be typical of the conditions of a...
HOLD FAST TO INSPIRED SCRIPTURE 2 Timothy 3:10 The world does not love Christ or Christians any better than of old; and all who are minded to live godly lives will come inevitably to the cross in one...
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...
POWER TO CONFRONT THE COMING APOSTASY Paul's life stood in contrast to the lives of the false teachers and should have served as an example to Timothy and others around him. His teaching was sound and...
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, &c. St. Paul here gives particular advice to his disciple, St. Timothy, who had been long since instructed in all the truths and mysteries of t...
(14) But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; (15) And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are...
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...
_BIBLE TEACHING_ ‘Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, whic...
14_But as for thee, continue in those things which thou hast learned _Although wickedness prevail, and push its way forward, he advises Timothy nevertheless to stand firm. And undoubtedly this is the...
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...
BUT CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS,.... That is, in the doctrines of the Gospel, and not be moved away from them, either through the malice or persecutions, or the cunning sleight of men that lie in wait...
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned _them_; Ver. 14. _But continue thou, &c._] Gr. μενε. Abide, keep thy station. Thou...
_But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned_ That is, continue to believe and obey them; _and hast been assured of_ Namely, of their absolute certainty and infinite importance; _knowing o...
CONTINUE THOU; to believe, preach, and practise the truths learned from the Scriptures and from the preaching of Paul....
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;...
THE PURPOSE OF HOLY SCRIPTURES....
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...
14-17 Those who would learn the things of God, and be assured of them, must know the Holy Scriptures, for they are the Divine revelation. The age of children is the age to learn; and those who would...
BUT CONTINUE THOU IN THE THINGS WHICH THOU HAST LEARNED; in the doctrines relating to faith, and the precepts relating to thy life as a minister, or as a Christian. AND HAST BEEN ASSURED OF; and hast...
2 Timothy 3:14 But G1161 you G4771 continue G3306 (G5720) in G1722 which G3739 learned G3129 (G5627) and...
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...
BUT ABIDE THOU (συ δε μενε). Emphatic contrast (συ δε), "But thou." Present active imperative of μενω, common verb, to remain.IN THE THINGS WHICH (εν οις). The antecedent to οις is not expressed...
2 Timothy 3:14 There can be no reasonable doubt what is meant by the sacred writings with which Timothy had been familiar from his infancy. His mother, Eunice, was "a Jewess which believed," and the f...
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...
BUT AS FOR YOU. "Don't act like these evil men and impostors!" WHO YOUR TEACHERS WERE. "Such as me, an inspired apostle of Christ!...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 3:14 FROM WHOM YOU LEARNED. This could refer to Paul. It may also refer back to Timothy’s mother and grandmother (2 Timothy 1:5; see...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 3:14. KNOWING OF WHOM.—R.V. margin, “Gr. what persons.” The apostle does not take the sole credit of the discipleship of Timothy, whose “faith does not stan...
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...
Ver. 14. _But do thou_ (σὺ δὲ emphatic, in contrast to the deceivers in the preceding verse) _continue in the things which thou didst learn_ (lit., in what things thou didst learn), _and wert assured...
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 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Timothy 4:16; 2 Timothy 1:13;...
Hast been assured of [ε π ι σ τ ω θ η ς]. N. T. o. Quito often in LXX So 2 Samuel 7:16, shall be established (of the house of David) : Psalms 87:37, steadfast in his covenant....
SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS 2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to every one of us; even the men and the young men love mot...
OUR GUIDE AMONG THE WRECKAGE 2 Timothy 1:3; 2 Timothy 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:14; 2 Timothy 4:1;...
From whom — Even from me a teacher approved of God....
Several arguments are here made use of, by St. Paul, to press Timothy to the duty of perseverance in the doctrine of Christ, contained in the holy scriptures; the first is drawn from the authority of...