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Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 2:16

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

2 Timothy2:16

16 But shun profane, and vain bablings , for they will increase unto more ungodliness .

By these dishonourable terms the Apostle defameth all impertinent Discourses in discharge of the ministerial Office, such as 1 Tim. 1.4. he had called Fables, endless Genealogies which minister questions, chap. 4.7. profane, and old wives fables, here he calls them [non-Latin text not transcribed], empty, vain, and unprofitable discourses which though possibly not prophane in themselves, yet were prophane, as used in the discharge of the ministerial Office, where nothing ought to be discoursed, but the solid useful Truths of the Gospel.

These he saith will issue at last in errors and ungodliness of Life.

Marginal references: 1 Tim. 6.20.

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