Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
2 Timothy 2:26
And [that] they may recover. They are in "the snare of the devil",
taken captive at will. The only hope is that in the providence of God
they "may recover" themselves (the idea is, to "return to soberness",
Revised Version, margin), repent, and acknowledge the truth. Men are
commanded to "Repent", Matthew 3:2 Ac 2:38, etc., but here God is alluded
to as "peradventure" giving repentance. The meaning is made clear by
comparing with Acts 11:18 "Then hath God also the Gentiles granted
repentance unto life". The meaning there is that God has granted to the
Gentiles the privilege of repentance, even as unto the Jews. So Paul's
idea here is that God, peradventure, may grant these, though sinning so
grievously, opportunities for repentance, instead of delivering them
over to hardness of heart.
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2 Timothy 2:26
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