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Philetus
Amiable, with Hymenaeus, at Ephesus, said that the “resurrection was past already” (2 Tim 2:17, 2 Tim 2:18). This was a Gnostic heresy held by the Nicolaitanes. (See Alexander [4].)
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 2 Timothy 2:17 And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
