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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:25 - 2:25
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instructing - Greek, “disciplining,” instructing with correction, which those who deal in “uninstructive” or “undisciplined questions” need (see on 2Ti 2:23; see on 1Ti 1:20).
those that oppose themselves - Greek, “oppositely affected”; those of a different opinion.
if ... peradventure - Greek, “if at any time.”
repentance - which they need as antecedent to the full knowledge (so the Greek for ‘acknowledgment’) of the truth” (1Ti 2:4), their minds being corrupted (2Ti 3:8), and their lives immoral. The cause of the spiritual ignorance which prompts such “questions” is moral, having its seat in the will, not in the intellect (Joh 7:17). Therefore repentance is their first need. That, not man, but God alone can “give” (Act 5:31).