2 Timothy 3:7 (WEB)
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Fathers and councils · 11
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
“For, being driven away from Him who truly is [God], and being turned backwards, he shall be for ever seeking, yet shall never find out God; but shall continually swim in an abyss without limits, unless, being converted by repentance, he return to the place from which he had been cast out,…” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…as blind men are led by the blind, they shall deservedly fall into the ditch of ignorance lying in their path, ever seeking and never finding out the truth.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 7.
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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.
Read the whole comment“…for so you would become like those silly women of whom the apostle says that they are “always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“…it was not said, “Seek His face evermore,” in the same sense as of certain others, who are “always learning, and never coming to a knowledge of the truth;” but rather as the preacher saith, “When a man hath finished, then he beginneth;” till we reach that life where we shall be so filled, that our natures shall…” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 7.
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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“Of women who are thus presumptuous the apostle says that they “are carried about with every wind of doctrine, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 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 · 12
Cited together in Against Heresies V.20.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in The City of God II.1.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.20.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.20.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.20.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 63.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.20.