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2 Timothy 4:4

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

Do you see? They are not led astray out of ignorance, but willingly. "They will turn away," he says, "their hearing and will turn to fables." Therefore their evil is voluntary. The Apostle says this not in order to cast his disciple into despondency, but to persuade him to make proper use of the present time of safety, and so that he would courageously endure when this happens; just as Christ also says: "they will deliver you up to councils and will beat you" (Matt. 10:17). …

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Western Saints

Thomas Aquinas

Then he says, "and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth," he explains his advice. First he explains what he had said, namely, that they will not endure sound doctrine, when he says, "they will turn away their hearing from the truth." For doctrine is sound when it is not an alloy of truth and falsity. …

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