How does false doctrine spread like gangrene (2 Timothy 2:17)?
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 0012 Paul’s warning to Timothy about false doctrine in 2 Timothy 2:17 employs one of the most visceral metaphors in Scripture. Writing from his Roman imprisonment, likely in the damp and disease-ridden Mamertine Prison, the apostle reaches for medical language to convey the devastating nature of heretical teaching. The image he selects, gangrene, would…
