2 Timothy 2:17 (WEB)
and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:
Fathers and councils · 15
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…bestowed in answer to the prayers of the saints—that they do not even believe this can be possibly be done, [and hold] that the resurrection from the dead is simply an acquaintance with that truth which they proclaim.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Tim. ii. 17, 18. [On the sub-apostolic age and this subject of miracles, Newman, in spite of his sophistical argumentation, may well be consulted for…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“Thus Hymenæus and Alexander and their fellows were beside the time, when they said that the resurrection had already been; and the Galatians were after the time, in making much of circumcision now.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17, 18; 1 Tim. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“Paul, for instance, bearing testimony to the same point, advises his disciple, saying, ‘Avoid profane conversations; for they increase unto more ungodliness, and their word takes hold as doth a canker, of whom are Hymenæus and Philetus.’” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For when they say that “their word creeps as a canker,” how is such a word as that able to give remission of sins, which creeps like a canker to the ears of the hearers?” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
Read the whole comment“Their word doth eat as doth a cancer; their conversation advances like a contagion; their noxious and envenomed persuasion kills worse than persecution itself.” — editor's note: [2 Tim. ii. 17.]
Read the whole comment“Also in the second to Timothy: “Their word doth creep as a canker.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Yet “the seat of pestilence” may be more appropriately understood of hurtful doctrine; “whose word spreadeth as a canker.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
Read the whole comment“I ask thee, of whom speaketh the Apostle in these words, “Of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already: and overthrow the faith of some?”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17–19.
Read the whole comment“They said that the resurrection had taken place already, but in such manner that another was not to be expected; and they blamed people who were looking for a resurrection of the flesh, just as if the resurrection which was promised were already accomplished in the act of believing, namely, in the mind.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“Hear, therefore, how the apostle foresaw such things, and gave salutary admonition about avoiding them, when he said, “Shun profane novelties of words; for they increase unto much ungodliness, and their speech insinuates itself as doth a cancer.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17. Augustin translates κενοφωνίας (“babblings,” “empty utterances,” vaniloquia, Vulgate) as if it read καινοφωνίας, “novelties of words.”—Tr.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For it is of these that he says, Whose word spreadeth like a cancer, tainting the health of the mind, invaded by it with a secret and stealthy contagion.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
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Leo the Great
“And taking heed lest any of the holy flock should perish, we admonish you with fatherly warnings to keep aloof from the “lying lips” and the “deceitful tongue” from which the prophet asks that his soul should be delivered; because “their words,” as says the blessed Apostle, “do creep as doth a gangrene.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
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Tertullian
“It is a comparatively small thing, that certain men, like Phygellus, and Hermogenes, and Philetus, and Hymenæus, deserted His apostle: the betrayer of Christ was himself one of the apostles.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. i. 15; ii. 17; 1 Tim. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,” and “unprofitable questions,” and “words which spread like a cancer?”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Accordingly, the blessed apostle very appropriately and urgently exhorts us “not to strive about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers, but to shun profane and vain babblings, for they increase unto more ungodliness, and their word will eat as doth a canker.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 14, 16, 17.
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Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 16.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 16.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 16.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 6.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 6.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 16.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 6.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 6.