Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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Gill's Exposition
Traitors,.... To their princes and sovereigns, whose deaths they have contrived and compassed, and whom they have assassinated and murdered; and have been betrayers of the secrets of persons, which…
Barnes' Notes
Traitors - This word is used in the New Testament only here and in Luk 6:16; Act 7:52. It means any one who betrays - whether it be a friend or his country. Treason has been in all ages regarded as…
Adam Clarke
Traitors - Προδοται· From προ, before, and διδωμι, to deliver up. Those who deliver up to an enemy the person who has put his life in their hands; such as the Scots of 1648, who delivered up into the…
Timothy must not think it strange if there were in the church bad men; for the net of the gospel was to enclose both good fish and bad, Mat 13:47, Mat 13:48. Jesus Christ had foretold (Mt. 24) that…
Cambridge Bible
traitors, heady, highminded The last triad again descending, false and forward and full of conceit, the spirit of one who -with a light heart" (1) betrays old friends, and (2) rushes headlong on new…
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