And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
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Gill's Exposition
And their word will eat as doth a cancer,.... Or "gangrene", which gnaws and feeds upon the flesh, inflames and mortifies as it goes, and spreads swiftly, and endangers the whole body; and is…
Barnes' Notes
And their word - The word, or the discourses of those who love vain and idle disputations. Will eat as doth a canker - Margin, “gangrene.” This word - γάγγραινα gangraina - occurs nowhere else in the…
Adam Clarke
Their word will eat as doth a canker - Ὡς γαγγραινα· As a gangrene; i.e. as a mortification in the flesh, where the circulation is entirely stopped, and putrefaction takes place, which continues to…
Having thus encouraged Timothy to suffer, he comes in the next place to direct him in his work.
I. He must make it his business to edify those who were under his charge, to put them in remembrance of…
Cambridge Bible
their word As opposed to -the word of truth" above, the fictions and heresies in which the Gnostic scheme expressed itself.
will eat Lit. -will have pasture." The word occurs Joh 10:9 -will find…