...endure sound doctrine : but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itchin? ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from the...of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou...

...reprove, rebuke, exbort with «li long-suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they wili not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts...from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But wa'di thou in ail tilings: endure afflictions: do the work of an evangelist : make full proof of thy...

...almost every vice, which he there enumerates. He expresses this with equal clearness, chap. iv. 3, 4 : " For the time will come when they will not endure sound...from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." But the most shocking picture of the irregularities of some professing Christians, though, perhaps, in...

...truth." He charges him " to preach the word ; to reprove, rebuke and exhort, with all long suffering and doctrine ; for the time will come when they will...away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned to fables." He charges him solemnly in the words of our text "to hold fast the form of sound words...

...and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron8. For the time will come when they will not endure sound...away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables'. For there » 1 Cor. ix. 7—15. « 2 Tim. ii. «. § IT. » Matt. vii. 15, 16. » Matt,...

...godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Tim. iii. 1 — 5. The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after...ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. 2 Tim. iv. 3, 4. & Of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples...

...this case the event often remarkably verifies the prediction of the apostle : " The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after...and they shall turn away their ears from the truth to fables*." * 2 Tim. w. 3, 4. 3. Divisions in the Church sometimes become inveterate, and it is a...

...learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." — And he says that " the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after...and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned unto fables." It appears to me, that tin Apostle has described in these words the character...

...propagated, and thus it was propagated from a very early period. " The time will come (said Paul to Timothy) when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after...ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. "-jThirdly : — The large portion of unsanctified wisdom found even in godly men. — " The wisdom...

...propagated, and thus it was propagated from a very early period. " The time will come (said Paul to Timothy) when they will not endure sound doctrine ; but after...their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."f Thirdly : — The large portion of ,unsanctified wisdom found even in godly men. — " The...