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2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3
2Ti_3:1-5 The apostle foretelleth the evil characters that
should appear in the last days.
2Ti_3:6-9 He describeth the enemies of the truth,
2Ti_3:10-13 propoundeth unto Timothy his own example,
2Ti_3:14-17 and exhorteth him to abide in the doctrine he had
learned, commending unto him the manifold use of the
Holy Scriptures.
We met with this term,
last days, 1Ti_4:1, and
there said that the Scripture by that term understands all the time
from Christ’s ascension to the end of the world. We meet with the
term, Gen_49:1 Isa_2:2 Mic_4:1 Act_2:17 Heb_1:2 Jam_5:3 2Pe_3:3.
Of these days some are later than others, but it appears by Act_2:17
Heb_1:2, that that whole period of time is so called.
Perilous times shall come; in the Greek it is, difficult times,
that is, times when it will be difficult for Christians to keep their
lives or estates, or any happy station in the world, with a good
conscience, by reason of the plenty of ill men that should live in
those times, and make them so difficult.