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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hymenaeus (Man living at the time of the New Testament)
Paul names him twice, both times as a warning. In one letter he and Alexander are handed over to Satan for blasphemy; in the other he and Philetus are teaching that the resurrection has already happened, and some have lost their faith over it. He was probably at Ephesus.
Paul names him twice, both times as a warning. In one letter he and Alexander are handed over to Satan for blasphemy; in the other he and Philetus are teaching that the resurrection has already happened, and some have lost their faith over it. He was probably at Ephesus.
Hymenaeus was a man in the early church, probably at Ephesus, whom Paul names twice as an example of shipwrecked faith. In 1 Timothy 1:20 Paul says he handed Hymenaeus and Alexander over to Satan for blasphemy, and in 2 Timothy 2:17-18 he links Hymenaeus with Philetus for teaching that the resurrection had already taken place, a claim Paul says overturned the faith of some believers.
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- 1 Timothy 1:20
- 2 Timothy 2:17
