Acts 20:29-30
29I know that after I am gone ▼▼ Grk “after my departure.”
fierce wolves ▼▼ That is, people like fierce wolves. See BDAG 167-68 s.v. βαρύς 4 on the term translated “fierce.” The battle that will follow would be a savage one.
will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30Even from among your own group ▼▼ Grk “from among yourselves.”
men ▼▼ The Greek term here is ἀνήρ (anēr), which only rarely is used in a generic sense to refer to both males and females. Since Paul is speaking to the Ephesian elders at this point and there is nothing in the context to suggest women were included in that group (“from among your own group”), it is most likely Paul was not predicting that these false teachers would include women.
will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ▼ ▼▼ These perversions of the truth refer to the kinds of threats that would undermine repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (cf. v. 21). Instead these false teachers would arise from within the Ephesian congregation (cf. 1 John 2:18–19) and would seek to draw the disciples away after them.
to draw the disciples away after them.
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