1Ti 6:21, 2Ti 2:18 | JFB | STEP | 21. Which some professing —namely, professing these oppositions of science falsely so called. erred —(See on ; ) —literally, "missed the mark" ( ). True sagacity is inseparable from faith. Grace — Greek, " the grace," namely, of God, for which we Christians look, and in which we stand [ALFORD ]. be with thee —He restricts the salutation to Timothy, as the Epistle was not to be read in public [BENGEL ]. But the oldest manuscripts read, "be with you"; and the "thee" may be a transcriber's alteration to harmonize with . Amen

1 Timothy 6:21

21. Which some professing—namely, professing these oppositions of science falsely so called.

erred—(See on 1Ti 1:6; 1Ti 2:11) —literally, "missed the mark" (2Ti 3:7, 8). True sagacity is inseparable from faith.

Grace—Greek, "the grace," namely, of God, for which we Christians look, and in which we stand [ALFORD].

be with thee—He restricts the salutation to Timothy, as the Epistle was not to be read in public [BENGEL]. But the oldest manuscripts read, "be with you"; and the "thee" may be a transcriber's alteration to harmonize with 2Ti 4:22; Tit 3:15.

Amen—omitted in the oldest manuscripts.

2 Timothy 2:18

18. erred—Greek, "missed the aim" (see 1Ti 6:21).

is past already—has already taken place. The beginnings of the subsequent Gnostic heresy already existed. They "wrested" (2Pe 3:16) Paul's own words (Ro 6:4; Eph 2:6; Col 2:12) "to their own destruction," as though the resurrection was merely the spiritual raising of souls from the death of sin. Compare 1Co 15:12, where he shows all our hopes of future glory rest on the literal reality of the resurrection. To believe it past (as the Seleucians or Hermians did, according to AUGUSTINE [Epistles, 119.55, To Januarius, 4]), is to deny it in its true sense.

overthrow—trying to subvert "the foundation" on which alone faith can rest secure (2Ti 2:19; compare Tit 1:11).