John Trapp on 2 Timothy 2:17

Verſe 17. Eat as doth a gangrene] Which preſently overruns the parts, and rakes the brain, pierceth into the very bones, and if not ſuddenly cured by cutting oft the part infected, kils the patient. Loe ſuch is hereſie and errour: which made Placilla the Empreſſe earneſtly beſeech her husband Theodoſius Senior not to confer with Eunomius the heretike,Sozom. l 7. c. 7 leſt he ſhould be perverted by his ſpeeches.Jac Revius de vit. Pont. Anaſtaſius ſecond Biſhop of Rome, anno 497. while he ſought to win Acacius the heretike, was ſeduced by him.