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NASB | 2 Timothy 2:26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 2:26 and that they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will. |
Bible Question: in verse 26 whose will God's or Satan's |
Bible Answer: Hi, bjandy... Welcome to the forum! The Literal version by Jay P. Green, Sr. translates these verses -- rightly, I think -- as follows: "But a slave of the Lord ought not to quarrel, but to be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing, in meekness teaching those who have opposed, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth, and they having regained senses out of the snare of the devil, being captured by him to do the will of that One." Hence, Paul is speaking of the remedy to Satan's entanglements in order to free the believer to do God's will. Interesting that we run into so many people that raise up things other than doctrine as being most important in the Christian life. That is sad, because they are only "greasing the skids" that lead into Satan's web. The Westminster Confession, using the somewhat antiquated language of its day, addresses these traps of the wicked one: "The two great pillars upon which the kingdom of Satan is erected, and by which it is upheld, are ignorance and error; the first step of our manumission [liberation] from this spiritual thraldom [kingdom] consists in having our eyes opened, and being turned from darkness to light, Acts 26:18. The understanding is the guide and pilot of the whole man, that faculty which sits at the stern [the pilot] of the soul: but as the most expert guide may mistake in the dark, so may the understanding, when it wants [lacks] the light of knowledge: without knowledge the mind cannot be good, Proverbs 19:2; nor the life good, nor the eternal condition safe, Ephesians 4:18." Richard Baxter recommends, right in line with Paul, the divine remedy: "A most sovereign antidote against all kind of errors, is to be grounded and settled in the faith: persons unfixed in the true religion, are very receptive of a false; and they who are nothing in spiritual knowledge, are easily made anything. Clouds without water are driven to and fro with every wind, and ships without ballast liable to the violence of every tempest. But yet the knowledge we especially commend, is not a brain-knowledge, a mere speculation; this may be in the worst of men; but an inward, a savory, an heart knowledge, such as was in that martyr, who, though she could not dispute for Christ, could die for Him." Mark these counsels well, as they are solidly rooted in the teaching of Scripture. In Him, Doc |
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