Commentary on 2 Timothy
Pelagius
Paul says, My whole origin steered me to the worship of God. I devastated the church of Christ not from malevolence but from zeal for the law.
God foreknew those who would be reborn in response to the offer of grace.
Either "with many persons present I gave you mandates such as you should teach," or "what I said I have confirmed with many examples and testimonies from the prophets."
Do not manipulate Scripture testimonies. This kind of argument does not edify but does damage to one's hearers, who come to think that a certain sharpness and subtlety of mind is everything. Or: Don't try to win with words but with deeds.
It is correct living that confirms the word and that interprets it rightly.
That kind of wound is called a suppurating sore, which begins in the female breasts and then grows quickly into the abdominal region. When it finally becomes a poison that permeates the heart, there is no remedy. In just such a way the discussions of heretics are to be avoided, lest through the ears they reach the mind with an irremediable wound.
The resurrection has happened, according to them, either in children or in Ezekiel's reference to the revivified bones of the people of Israel in captivity.
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