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Hymenaeus (Humenaios). The same heretic reappears in 2Ti 2:17. He and Alexander are the chief “wreckers” of faith in Ephesus.
Alexander (Alexandros). Probably the same as the one in 2Ti 4:14, but not the Jew of that name in Act 19:33, unless he had become a Christian since then.
I delivered unto Satan (paredōka tōi Satanāi). See this very idiom (paradounai tōi Satanāi) in 1Co 5:5. It is a severe discipline of apostolic authority, apparently exclusion and more than mere abandonment (1Th 2:18; 1Co 5:11; 2Co 2:11), though it is an obscure matter.
That they might be taught not to blaspheme (hina paideuthōsin mē blasphēmein). Purpose clause with hina and first aorist passive subjunctive of paideuō. For this use of this common late verb, see note on 1Co 11:32; 2Co 6:9.