2 Timothy 3:6 (WEB)
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
Fathers and councils · 9
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.24Book VI
“…into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts; ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”” — editor's note: Cf. 2 Tim. iii. 6, 7.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Such are the words and deeds by which, in our own district of the Rhone, they have deluded many women, who have their consciences seared as with a hot iron.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 6.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“They go about to different cities with no other intent than to deliver letters under the pretext of friendship and in the name of peace, and by hypocrisy and flattery to obtain other letters in return, in order to deceive a few ‘silly women who are laden with sins.’” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 6
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Augustine of Hippo
““For of these are they that steal into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, who are led with divers lusts, alway learning, and at the knowledge of the truth never arriving.”…For, “may be excluded,” hath been said, meaning, may appear, may stand forth: as he saith, “may be made manifest.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 6, 7.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Luke
“(2 Tim. 3:6.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Such persons, when they have once gained admission to the houses of the high-born, and have deceived “silly women laden with sins, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” feign a sad mien and pretend to make long fasts while at night they feast in secret.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“…the women, concerning whom we are told that they are “led away with divers lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“Such being the state of the case, what object is served by “silly women laden with sins, carried about with every wind of doctrine, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth?”” — editor's note: Eph. iv. 14; 2 Tim. iii. 6, 7.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“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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Cross-references · 10
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies I.13.
Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 4:14–21 (Catena Aurea).