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Acts 20:30

King James Version (KJV)

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Acts 20:30

Verse 30 of 38

Scripture focus

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Acts 20:30 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Acts 20:30

Theological / Devotional

Of your own selves. The wolves of the previous verse, which were to attack the flock without, represent the Judaizing and paganizing influences that by A.D. 400 had radically changed popular Christianity. Now Paul warns of apostatizing influences coming from within, like Demas (2 Tim. 4:10), and Hymenaeus and Philetus (2 Tim. 2:17), whose words ate “as doth a canker,” and who overthrew “the faith of some.”

Draw away. Gr. apospad, “to draw off,” “to tear away.” Those members of the Christian church who themselves had fallen away, would draw off others to share their apostasy.

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