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Hymeneus

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Hymene´us, a professor of Christianity at Ephesus, who, with Alexander () and Philetus (), had departed from the truth both in principle and practice, and led others into apostasy. The chief doctrinal error of these persons consisted in maintaining that 'the resurrection was past already.' The precise meaning of this expression is by no means clearly ascertained: the most general and perhaps best founded opinion is, that they understood the resurrection in a figurative sense of the great change produced by the Gospel dispensation. Most critics suppose that the same person is referred to in both the Epistles to Timothy by the name of Hymeneus. Dr. Mosheim, however, contends that there were two. But his reasoning on the subject is far from satisfactory.

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Hymeneus'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​h/hymeneus.html.
 
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