2 Timothy 2:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

recover themselves. Literally become sober again. Greek. ananepho. Compare 2 Timothy 4:5.

snare. See 1 Timothy 3:7.

taken captive. Greek. z ogreo, See Luke 6:10.

by. App-104.

at. unto. App-104.

will. App-102. The pronouns "him" and "his" have not the same reference. The first refers to the servant, the second to God, and the meaning of the passage is, the distill stirs up those lie has ensnared to oppose, lest God should give them repentance, and lest, having been taken captive by God's servant, they should escape the snare, to do the will of God.

2 Timothy 2:26

26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.