2 Timothy 3:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3 2 Timothy 3:1-5 The apostle foretelleth the evil characters that should appear in the last days. 2 Timothy 3:6-9 He describeth the enemies of the truth, 2 Timothy 3:10-13 propoundeth unto Timothy his own example, 2 Timothy 3:14-17 and exhorteth him to abide in the doctrine he had learned, commending unto him the manifold use of the Holy Scriptures. We met with this term, last days, 1 Timothy 4:1, and there said that the Scripture by that term understands all the time from Christ's ascension to the end of the world. We meet with the term, Genesis 49:1 Isaiah 2:2 Micah 4:1 Acts 2:17 Hebrews 1:2 James 5:3 2 Peter 3:3. Of these days some are later than others, but it appears by Acts 2:17 Hebrews 1:2, that that whole period of time is so called. Perilous times shall come; in the Greek it is, difficult times, that is, times when it will be difficult for Christians to keep their lives or estates, or any happy station in the world, with a good conscience, by reason of the plenty of ill men that should live in those times, and make them so difficult.