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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Jambres (Man living at the time of the New Testament)
Paul names Jannes and Jambres as the men who opposed Moses, and so a warning about anyone who resists the truth. Exodus has Pharaoh's magicians copy some of the signs but never names them; the names come from Jewish tradition.
Paul names Jannes and Jambres as the men who opposed Moses, and so a warning about anyone who resists the truth. Exodus has Pharaoh's magicians copy some of the signs but never names them; the names come from Jewish tradition.
Jambres, along with Jannes, was one of two Egyptian magicians tradition names as having opposed Moses before Pharaoh, replicating some of the plague signs through their secret arts (compare Exodus 7:11, 22). Paul cites the pair by name in 2 Timothy 3:8 as an example of men who oppose the truth, drawing on a tradition current among Jewish teachers though not recorded by name in the Old Testament text itself.
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- 2 Timothy 3:8
