Reference: Hymenaeus
Fausets
Having put away a good conscience, and so "concerning faith having made shipwreck" (for when one's faith does not better his morals, his moral defects will corrupt his faith), therefore "delivered (by Paul) to Satan to learn not to blaspheme" (1Ti 1:20). "Erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is past already, overthrowing the faith of some" (2Ti 2:17-18). Satan is lord of all outside the church (Ac 26:18); he, by God's permission, afflicts saints and executes wrath on the disobedient (1Co 5:5; 2Co 12:7; Eph 4:27; Job 1:2). Paul, as an infallible apostle, had powers not transmitted to fallible successors (2Co 10:8; Mt 18:17-18).
His sentence pronounced at Rome took effect on Hymenaeus at Ephesus, in the form of some bodily sickness (so Ac 5:5,10; 13:11; 1Co 11:30), that he should learn not to blaspheme. (See EXCOMMUNICATION.) Hymenaeus after excommunication was probably restored in the interim between 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, and troubled the church again. Gnosticism, or the pretension to extraordinary spiritual knowledge above what is written, was Hymenaeus' heresy, in concert first with Alexander, afterwards with Philetus.
The Gnostics (2Pe 3:16) "wrested Paul's words" (Ro 6:4; Eph 2:6; Col 2:12) as though the resurrection was merely the spiritual raising of souls from the death of sin (Joh 5:24-25). The difficulties of the resurrection (Ac 17:32; 26:8), the supposed evil inherent in matter, and the disparagement of the body, tended to this error (Col 2:23). Paul confutes this by showing that, besides the raising of the soul now from the death of sin, there shall be also hereafter a raising of the saint's body from the grave (Joh 5:28-29), as the fruit of JESUS' bodily resurrection (1 Corinthians 15).
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And if he refuses to listen to them, tell [it] to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven.
Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. "Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.
"Do not be astonished [at] this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice and they will come out--those who have done good [things] to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil [things] to a resurrection of judgment.
And [when] Ananias heard these words, he fell down [and] died. And great fear came on all those who heard about [it].
And immediately she fell down at his feet and died. So [when] the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried [her] out [and] buried [her] with her husband.
And now behold, the hand of the Lord [is] against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun {for a while}. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for [people] to lead [him] by the hand.
Now [when they] heard about the resurrection of the dead, [some] scoffed, but [others] said, "We will hear you about this again also."
Why is it thought incredible by you [people] that God raises the dead?
to open their eyes [so that they] may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, [so that] they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live {a new way of life}.
[I have decided] to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
For even if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave [us] {for building you up and not for tearing you down}, I will not be put to shame,
and raised [us] together and seated [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
nor give place to the devil.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with [him] through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
which [things] {although they have}, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, {do not have any value} against the indulgence of the flesh.
among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, in order that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have deviated concerning the truth [by] saying the resurrection has already taken place, and they are upsetting the faith of some.
as [he does] also in all his letters, speaking in them about these [things], in which there are some [things] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as [they] also [do] the rest of the scriptures.
Hastings
A heretical Christian associated with Alexander in 1Ti 1:19 f., and with Philetus in 2Ti 2:17 f., though some have considered that two different persons are meant. These false teachers 'made shipwreck concerning the faith'; their heresy consisted in denying the bodily resurrection, saying that the resurrection was already past
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[I have decided] to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
having faith and a good conscience, which some, [because they] have rejected [these], have suffered shipwreck concerning their faith,
and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
Morish
Hymenae'us
One who had made shipwreck of faith. Paul, in his apostolic authority, had delivered him and Alexander unto Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme. He is also mentioned with Philetus, as having erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection had passed already (probably allegorising it), and had overthrown the faith of some. 1Ti 1:20; 2Ti 2:17.
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among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, in order that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
Smith
Hymenae'us
(belonging to marriage), the name of a person occurring twice in the correspondence between St. Paul and Timothy; the first time classed with Alexander,
and the second time classed with Philetus.
(A.D. 66-7.) He denied the true doctrine of the resurrection.
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among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, in order that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have deviated concerning the truth [by] saying the resurrection has already taken place, and they are upsetting the faith of some.