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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"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer. "I tell you all in solemn truth that whatever you forbid upon earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life. "Solemnly I tell you that the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live.
"Do not wonder at this, because an hour is coming in which all who are in their graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth again; "those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.
As Ananias heard these words he fell down and expired, and all who heard were awe-struck.
Instantly she fell down at his feet and expired, and when the young men came in they found her dead, and carried her out and buried her husband.
"The Lord's hand is now upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season." Instantly there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and groping about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
"Why is it deemed incredible by you all, if God raises the dead?
"'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame.
together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm,
Give the devil no place.
when you were buried with him in baptism. In baptism also you were raised with him, through your faith in the energy of that God who raised him from the dead.
For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.
Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
and their teaching will spread like a gangrene. Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.
It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
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 handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.
keeping fast hold of faith and a good conscience; which certain individuals have cast aside, and so made shipwreck of their faith.
and their teaching will spread like a gangrene.
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 them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so 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 them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.
and their teaching will spread like a gangrene. Among such are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have gone astray concerning the truth by declaring that the resurrection is already past; and they are undermining the faith of some.