2 Timothy 3:3
3 Without natural affection, [astorgos] trucebreakers, [aspondos]
false accusers, [diabolos] incontinent, [akrates] fierce, [anemeros]
despisers of those that are good, [aphilagathos]
KJV-Interlinear
3 unloving,
irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of
good, NASB
Without affection, ‘astorgos,’
means to be heartless, without conscience, unpatriotic, without natural
affection.
The natural affections
of life are generally found in mothers for their children, married couples
feelings for each other, dedication to a noble cause like a team, school, or
country, and so forth.
And so, when a person
is without affection, then they are truly self centered, and cold.
Irreconcilable or
trucebreakers, ‘aspondos,’ applies to those who refuse to make changes in their
lives. They do not forgive, they hold
grudges, they want revenge far beyond what is reasonable or fair. They see life only as they want to see
it. They are implacable and
unmovable. They refuse to compromise.
They are controlling.
False accusers or
gossips, ‘diabolos,’which is a title for Satan, means to indict or lay
blame. They do this in order to promote
themselves as the messenger of what they believe to be the justice of accusation,
in order to get others to go against their victim. They do not seek right, but seek only
punishment for their victim. Their
motivation is usually out of hate or jealousy or envy.
Incontinent, ‘akrates,’
means without self control. This person
cares nothing for people. In fact they
care nothing for themselves, even though they are full of selfish
characteristics. They throw away their
own life while pursuing their life through false concepts. The lack of self control simply put, means
that the wicked person, eventually loses all self control of their life and
place it in the hands of the world. But
they fully believe that they have total control over their life.
Brutal, ‘aneneros,’
carries the connotation of wild beasts, hunter and prey activities of
violence. They are insensitive, malicious,
and thus brutal. They have zero concern
for others or their circumstances.
Despisers of those who
are good, ‘aphilagathos,’ means to hate or reject through conscious choice,
that which is good, while at the same time, loving that, and again through
conscious choice, that which is bad, fully knowing what is good and what is
bad, but making their wrong decisions none the less.
Unlike animals who
operate on the principle of instincts that guide them through life, wicked
people drift off into self love be means of their conscious decisions to reject
truth, which in turns drifts into the realm of brutality, self pity, hate, and
so forth.
And remember that Paul is
describing not simply the principle of these characteristics, and not just that
some people will demonstrate them from time to time, and not just that history
will have periods when folks will be good and bad, but Paul is describing the
general nature of the entire world as we approach the end of our dispensation.
We will not wake up one
morning and suddenly see seven billion selfish people, but this transition will
occur over the course of perhaps several generations.
Look how the swim suit
designs have changed over the last century, and it took nearly a century for
society to accept those changes.
However, some other
changes like the acceptance of alternative life styles, have occurred over much
shorter periods. And as we move forward
through the next few years and decades, and as subsequent generations grow up,
then changes which will lead society to accept and even make into normal
practice, things that the Bible defines as wicked and evil, will occur even
more quickly.
Once evil is accepted,
then the acceptance of more evil, becomes easier and easier, until that is all
there is.
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