For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Any Christian who is still reading their Bible knows that this time has come. The word 'endure' in the Greek is found in 2 THESS 1:4; it's anechomai, meaning "to hold onself up against, to put up with (tolerate?), to uphold, to have. Anechomai is also used in MATT 17:17; 1 COR 4:12 as "suffer"; 2 COR 11:1,4,19-20 as "bear with" and "suffer" and HEB 13:22 as "suffer".
MATTHEW 17:17
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
In the passage in 2 TIMOTHY, the negation of anechomai is used, meaning that these will NOT hold up, will NOT put up with [tolerate] sound ("healthy, wholesome, sound")teaching.
Any Christian who is still reading their Bible knows that this time has come. The word 'endure' in the Greek is found in 2 THESS 1:4; it's anechomai, meaning "to hold onself up against, to put up with (tolerate?), to uphold, to have. Anechomai is also used in MATT 17:17; 1 COR 4:12 as "suffer"; 2 COR 11:1,4,19-20 as "bear with" and "suffer" and HEB 13:22 as "suffer".
MATTHEW 17:17
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
In the passage in 2 TIMOTHY, the negation of anechomai is used, meaning that these will NOT hold up, will NOT put up with [tolerate] sound ("healthy, wholesome, sound")teaching.
