Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Ever learning - some novelty to suit their own fancies, from mere curiosity and instability, to the disparagement of old truths (Acts 17:21).
The knowledge, х epignoosin (G1922)] - 'the perfect knowledge,' the safeguard against unwarranted novelties. Gnosticism played especially on the credulity of the female sex (Irenaeus, 1: 13. 3; Epiphanius, 'Hoer.' 26: 11): so Jesuitism.