2 Timothy 3:6
6 For [gar] of [ek] this sort [touton] are they
[eisi] which creep [enduno] into [eis] houses, [oikia] and [kai] lead captive [aichmaloteuo] silly women [gunaikarion]
laden [soreuo] with sins, [hamartia] led away [ago] with divers [poikilos] lusts, [epithumia]KJV-Interlinear
6 For among
them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down
with sins, led on by various impulses, NASB
This sort, is a
reference to those who intentionally seek out and deceive others. These types come out of those who are phony
and spiritually negative, and otherwise wicked people.
It is in the masculine
form to indicate the outward aggressive attitude and function of those who
deceive.
To creep into houses, ‘enduno,’
is an idiom for the full range of the subtle activity of evil.
Evil consists of the
lies of the world. Lies, in order to be
effective, must be veiled and not revealed as to what they really are.
Politics are a good
example of this nature. Politicians who
promote evil agendas have to hide their true motives and agenda. They have to veil their words in ambiguity
such that people will draw their own conclusions as they seem convenient to
themselves. Therefore, the politician
can never be blamed, or so they think, since everyone reads what they want,
into the words of the politician.
Both politician and
hearer are wicked, both just approach wickedness from two opposite directions. Politicians mislead in order to get what they
want. Hearers hear only what they want,
in order to get what they want.
And so it is with any
wicked promoter. Their agenda is self-centered
as already explained in the prior verses.
They are predators as indicated by the masculine form. They seek out and take advantage of those who
are already vulnerable.
Thus the feminine
reference, silly women, ‘gunaikarion,’ for silly which means foolish, naïve,
little.
Now this can refer to
actual women that were not too bright.
But it is really a contextual reference to people in general (both men
and women) who lack doctrine, and therefore lack wisdom, and therefore lack
understanding, and therefore are foolish, and therefore are living out of
fellowship and therefore are living in sin, and therefore are easily led
astray.
The home is where you
live and people who lack a functional spiritual life, live in sin. Their wants and desires are incorporated in
sin, and when more sin is offered, they jump at the chance.
When evil approaches it
is always veiled in lies, otherwise any normal person would see it for what it
is and avoid it. But since lies are
offered, and since lies are not recognized, then the interpretation of those
lies becomes subjective to the convenience of the listener.
This is why cults and
religions and such, gain a following, because they offer something that the
followers want or think they are getting.
The next verse will bring this all together from both sides of evil.
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