2 Timóteo 4:15

15 Tu também guarda-te dele; porque resistiu muito �s nossas palavras.

2 Timóteo 4:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Timothy 4:15

Of whom be thou ware also
For he was now at Ephesus; and since he was such a malicious, ill natured, and troublesome person, as well as a blasphemer, an heretic, and had been delivered up to Satan, it was very advisable to shun his company, and have no conversation with him, and be upon the guard against him, that he might have no opportunity of doing hurt to him, or to the church at Ephesus:

for he hath greatly withstood our words:
or doctrines; the truths of the Gospel preached by Paul and Timothy, which he opposed himself to, and resisted with all his might, and endeavoured to confute and overthrow; and wherein he was deficient in argument, he made up with railing and blasphemy; and this was the true reason of the apostle's imprecations on him, and why he would have Timothy beware of him, and avoid him, and not the personal injury he had done him.

2 Timóteo 4:15 In-Context

13 Quando vieres traze a capa que deixei em Trôade, em casa de Carpo, e os livros, especialmente os pergaminhos.

14 Alexandre, o latoeiro, me fez muito mal; o Senhor lhe retribuirá segundo as suas obras.

15 Tu também guarda-te dele; porque resistiu muito �s nossas palavras.

16 Na minha primeira defesa ninguém me assistiu, antes todos me desampararam. Que isto não lhes seja imputado.

17 Mas o Senhor esteve ao meu lado e me fortaleceu, para que por mim fosse cumprida a pregação, e a ouvissem todos os gentios; e fiquei livre da boca do leão,