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 soul which had been imparted to it by faith in Christ. The belief that 'the resurrection is past already' may have been that Christ's Resurrection was the only one that was to be. A belief like this seems to have prevailed at Corinth: cp. 1 Corinthians 15:12; 1 Corinthians 15:16; 1 Corinthians 15:20.

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