Having swerved (αστοχησαντες). First aorist active participle of αστοχεω, compound

Koine verb (Polybius, Plutarch) f…

From which some having swerved. The marginal reading is not aiming at. The word used here, astocew—properly means to mis…

From which some having swerved have turned aside.—This sentence is rendered more accurately: From which some, having gone wide…

There were some who put the law into its wrong place. They made it a way of salvation, which it never was meant to be, and never can be. It is a wa…

Unfortunately, some at Ephesus had “wandered away” (lit., “missed the mark”; GK 1762) from a sincere life of faith and had turned to “meaningless t…

Those unprincipled men with whom Timothy had to deal boasted of having the law on their side, which led Paul to anticipate this, showing that the l…

From which some having swerved The apostle, in this verse and the next, describes the persons he suspected of teaching ot…

Whatever tends to weaken love for God, or love for fellow believers, tends to defeat the purpose of the commandment. The purpose of the gospel is f…

1. Above, he showed the value and usefulne of the virtues; here, he explains why they are needed. Specifically, whoever lacks them is in dan…