...Viewed in this " glass" that Scripture becomes plain and easy to be understood. " Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." (lTim.i.,20.) for without such an interpretation, one would have thought Satan the very teacher to...

...conscience ; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck : of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander ; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme," h that is, not to speak evil of the true faith. Acts such as these are held to be in breach of the...

...this passage does not determine the point. He miylit be so ; and these words might be like Paul's : ' Whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme' (I Tim. i. 20); 'deliver unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh' (1 Cor. v. 5). But certainly...

...concerning faith have made shipwreck : of whom is Hymenseus and Alexander ; whom " (the apostle adds) " I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme " (1 Tim. i. 19, 20.) He had excluded them from the church, the kingdom of God ; and they had in consequence...

...affect him.124 He gives the same exposition of the apostle's words concerning Hymenœus and Philetus, " Whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." As executioners, says he, though they be very wicked themselves, are made instruments m of chastising...

...Timothy; —respecting Those which he saith,—have made Shipwreck of Faith, and a good Conscience— "WHOM, I have delivered unto SATAN, that They may Learn, not to BLASPHEME." 1 Timothy i. 19, 20. And yet remembering the efficacy of sincere Repentance ; and the extreme duty of Charity,—the...

...good conscience, which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme." Of this text 1 may say, that the apostle was writing to Timothy as an eminent religious teacher, and...

...spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus." — I Cor. v. 5. And again, speaking of Hymeueus and Alexander, "whom I have delivered unto Satan,...the modes of expression used by the disciples cannot afiuct the argument drawn from the distinction observable in our Lord's own language, they still merit...

...excommunication, " to deliver unto Satan," 1 Cor. v. 5, who is the hangman. So he writes of Hymenseus and Alexander, "Whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme," 1 Tim. i. 20 : to Satan, that executioner of condemned souls. But to whom doth the Lord deliver Satan...

...conscience ; which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck : 20 Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander ; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. CHAP. II. 1 That it is meet to pray and give thanks for all men, and the reason why. 9 How women should...