Verse 20
3. Personally purged and pure both from lusts and heresy, he may meekly instruct others, 2 Timothy 2:20-26.
20. But Although this separation of characters is necessary, yet there surely will be a mixed whole.
A great house The Church, as Alford and Huther say. But were the errorists (who are clearly represented by the vessels to dishonour) part of the Church? More strictly the house is the great body of thinkers with whom Timothy had to do; and, perhaps still more comprehensively, the great world of free agents, as the same two classes of vessels in Romans 9:21-22, signify.
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