Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 2 Timothy 2:17
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2 Timothy2:17
17. will eat--literally, "will have pasture." The consuming progress of mortification is the image. They pretend to give rich spiritual pasture to their disciples: the only pasture is that of a spiritual cancer feeding on their vitals.
canker--a "cancer" or "gangrene."
Hymenaeus--(See on 1Ti 1:20). After his excommunication he seems to have been readmitted into the Church and again to have troubled it.
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