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Philetus <ref name="term_7018" /> | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74451" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' fi ''''' - ''''' lē´tus ''''' , ''''' fı̄ ''''' - ''''' lē´tus ''''' ( Φίλητος , ''''' Phı́lētos ''''' ( 2 Timothy 2:17 )): </p | <p> Phile'tus. (beloved). [[Philetus]] was, possibly, a disciple of Hymenaeus, with whom he is associated in 2 Timothy 2:17, and who is named, without him in an earlier Epistle. 1 Timothy 1:20. (A.D. 68-64). </p> <p> The disciples of [[Hymenaeus]] appear to have been persons who believed the [[Scripture]] of the Old Testament, but misinterpreted them, allegorizing away the doctrine of the resurrection, and resolving it all into figure and metaphor. "The delivering over unto Satan," seems to have been a form of excommunication, declaring the person reduced to the state of a heathen; and in the apostolic age, it was accompanied with supernatural or miraculous effects, upon the bodies of the persons so delivered. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37017" /> == | |||
<p> [[Coupled]] with [[Hymenaeus]] as "erring" (missing the aim: estocheesan ), and holding that "the resurrection is past already" (2 Timothy 2:17), as if it were merely the spiritual raising of souls from the death of sin: perverting Romans 6:4; Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12; compare 1 Corinthians 15:12, etc. (See HYMENAEUS.) So the [[Seleucians]] or Hermians taught (Augustine, Ep. 119:55 ad Januar. 4); the germs of Gnosticism, which fully developed itself in the second century. </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53254" /> == | |||
<p> <strong> PHILETUS. </strong> [[Mentioned]] in St. Paul’s [[Epistle]] to Timothy ( 2 Timothy 2:17 ) as an example of one of those who were doing harm by their false teaching on the subject of the resurrection of the body. For them the resurrection was past. It was a spiritual resurrection from sin to holiness, and there was no future resurrection of the body, no life to come. St. [[Paul]] says their teaching will eat away the true doctrine as a canker or gangrene eats away the flesh. Cf. Hymenæus. </p> <p> Morley Stevenson. </p> | |||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68210" /> == | |||
<p> One mentioned with [[Hymenaeus]] as having taught that the resurrection was already past (probably allegorising it) by whom the faith of some had been overthrown. Their evil doctrine would eat as a canker, or gangrene. 2 Timothy 2:17 . </p> | |||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16976" /> == | |||
<p> A heretic, excluded from the church for denying the resurrection, and promoting infidelity, 2 Timothy 2:17-18 . See HYMENUS. </p> | |||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48450" /> == | |||
<p> One that erred from the faith. (2 Timothy 2:17-18) </p> | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56848" /> == | |||
<p> See Hymenaeus. </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_43076" /> == | |||
2 Timothy 2:17-18 | |||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33083" /> == | |||
2 Timothy 2:17,18 | |||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_7018" /> == | |||
<p> ''''' fi ''''' - ''''' lē´tus ''''' , ''''' fı̄ ''''' - ''''' lē´tus ''''' ( Φίλητος , ''''' Phı́lētos ''''' ( 2 Timothy 2:17 )): </p> 1. The Nature of His Error: <p> This person is mentioned by Paul, who warns Timothy against him as well as against his associate in error, Hymeneus. The apostle speaks of [[Hymeneus]] and [[Philetus]] as instances of men who were doing most serious injury to the church by their teaching, and by what that teaching resulted in, both in faith and morals. The specific error of these men was that they denied that there would be any bodily resurrection. They treated all Scriptural references to such a state, as figurative or metaphorical. They spiritualized it absolutely, and held that the resurrection was a thing of the past. No resurrection was possible, so they taught, except from ignorance to knowledge, from sin to righteousness. There would be no day when the dead would hear the voice of [[Christ]] and come forth out of the grave. The Christian, knowing that Christ was raised from the dead, looked forward to the day when his body should be raised in the likeness of Christ's resurrection. But this faith was utterly denied by the teaching of Hymeneus and Philetus. </p> 2. How It Overthrew Faith: <p> This teaching of theirs, [[Paul]] tells us, had overthrown the faith of some. It would also overthrow [[Christian]] faith altogether, for if the dead are not raised, neither is Christ risen from the dead, and "ye are yet in your sins" (1 Corinthians 15:17 ). </p> <p> The denial of the resurrection of the body, whether of mankind generally or of Christ, is the overthrow of the faith. It leaves nothing to cling to, no living Christ, who saves and leads and comforts His people. The apostle proceeds to say that teaching of this kind "eats as doth a gangrene," and that it increases unto more ungodliness. As a canker or gangrene eats away the flesh, so does such teaching eat away Christian faith. Paul is careful to say, more than once, that the teaching which denies that there will be a resurrection of the dead leads inevitably to "ungodliness" and to "iniquity." See [[Hymenaeus]] . </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55450" /> == | |||
<p> (Φίλητος, beloved), an apostate Christian, possibly a disciple of Hymenaeus, with whom he is associated in 2 Timothy 2:17, and who is named without him in an earlier epistle (1 Timothy 1:20). A.D. 58-64. Waterland (Importance ofthe [[Doctrine]] of the [[Holy]] Trinity, chapter 4, in his Works, 3:459) condenses in a few lines the substance of many dissertations which have been written concerning their opinions, and the sentence which was inflicted upon at least one of them. "They appear to have been persons who believed the [[Scriptures]] of the O.T., but misinterpreted them, allegorizing away the doctrine of the resurrection, and resolving it all into figure and metaphor. The delivering over unto [[Satan]] seems to have been a form of excommunication declaring the person reduced to the state of a heathen; and in the apostolical age it was accompanied with supernatural or miraculous effects upon the bodies of the persons so delivered." Walch is of opinion that they were of [[Jewish]] origin; Hammond counnects them with the Gnostics; Vitringa (with less probability) with the Sadducees. They understood the resurrection to signify the knowledge and profession of the [[Christian]] religion, or regeneration and conversion, according to Walch, whose dissertation, [[De]] Hymenaeo et Phileto, in his Miscellanuea Sacra, 1744, pages 81-121, seems to exhaust the subject. [[Among]] writers who preceded him may be named Vitringa, Observ. Sacr. 4:9, pages 922-930; Buddoeus, [[Ecclesia]] Apostolica, 5:297-305. See also, on the heresy, Burton, Bampton Lectures, and dean Ellicott's notes on the pastoral epistles; and [[Potter]] on [[Church]] Government, chapter 5, with reference to the sentence. The names of [[Philetus]] and [[Hymenaeus]] occur separately among those of Caesar's household whose relics have been found in the Columbaria at Rome. (See [[Hymenaeus]]) </p> | |||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16490" /> == | |||
<p> Phile´tus, an apostate Christian, mentioned by [[Paul]] in connection with Hymenæus, [HYMENEUS]. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_74451"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_37017"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_53254"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/philetus Philetus from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_68210"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_16976"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/american-tract-society-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_48450"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hawker-s-poor-man-s-concordance-and-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_56848"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-new-testament/philetus Philetus from Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_43076"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_33083"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/philetus Philetus from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_7018"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/philetus Philetus from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_7018"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/philetus Philetus from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_55450"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/philetus Philetus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_16490"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/kitto-s-popular-cyclopedia-of-biblial-literature/philetus Philetus from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature]</ref> | |||
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