2Ti 2:17 | JFB | STEP | 17. will eat —literally, "will have pasture." The consuming progress of mortification is the image. They pretend to give rich spiritual pasture to their disciples: the only pasture is that of a spiritual cancer feeding on their vitals. canker —a "cancer" or "gangrene." Hymenaeus —(See on ). After his excommunication he seems to have been readmitted into the Church and again to have troubled it.

2 Timothy 2:17

17. will eat—literally, "will have pasture." The consuming progress of mortification is the image. They pretend to give rich spiritual pasture to their disciples: the only pasture is that of a spiritual cancer feeding on their vitals.

canker—a "cancer" or "gangrene."

Hymenaeus—(See on 1Ti 1:20). After his excommunication he seems to have been readmitted into the Church and again to have troubled it.