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2 Timothy 3:2 (WEB)
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Fathers and councils · 8

Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 107
“The first evil is, “lovers of themselves;” that is, as being pleased with themselves.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 46
“For that ye may know that it is a vice to love one’s self, the Apostle speaks thus, “For men shall be lovers of their own selves.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.7Book XIV
“And if any one demands an instance of amor being used in a bad sense (for we have already shown its use in a good sense), let him read the words, “For men shall be lovers (amantes) of their own selves, lovers (amatores) of money.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 123
“…implacable, with out kindness, traitors, heady, blinded; lovers of pleasures more than of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 1–5.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 1
“But as the conquering power of things evil is on the increase—which is the characteristic of the last times—things good are now not allowed either to be born, so corrupted are the seminal principles; or to be trained, so deserted are studies; nor to be enforced, so disarmed are the laws.” — editor's note: Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 1–5; Matt. xxiv. 12.
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Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church
“And as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth; but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, even as theirs also was.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 1–9. [Vol. iv. p. 521, this series.]
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.17Book I
“Such are the Greeks, “lovers of their own selves, and boasters.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome, Treatise on Christ and Antichrist
“As these things, then, are in the future, and as the ten toes of the image are equivalent to (so many) democracies, and the ten horns of the fourth beast are distributed over ten kingdoms, let us look at the subject a little more closely, and consider these matters as in the clear light of a personal survey.” — editor's note: [Deserving of especial note. Who could have foreseen the universal spirit of democracy in this century save by the light of this prophecy? Comp. 2 Tim. iii.…
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