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2Ti 2:18. Τὴν ἀνάστασιν, the resurrection) Perhaps these Ephesians had laid hold of a pretext taken from Paul’s own Epistle to the Ephesians, Eph 2:6. Clemens Al. says, that the defamers of marriage interpreted the resurrection [wherein “they neither marry nor are given in marriage”], Luk 20:35, concerning this life. [So the hope of eternal life was taken away.-V. g.]-ἀνατρέπουσι, subvert) The figure is derived from a foundation, a house; see the following verses.