And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Will eat, х nomeen (G3542) hexei (G2192)] 'will have pasture.' Mortification is the image. They pretend to give rich spiritual pasture to their disciples: the only pasture is that of a spiritual cancer feeding on their vitals.
Canker - a cancer or gangrene.
Hymeneus (note, 1 Timothy 1:20). After his excommunication he probably was re-admitted into the church and again troubled it.