- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Timothy 1:20
- last named
- 2 Timothy 2:17
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Hymenaeus?
Hymenaeus is mentioned in two of Paul's epistles to Timothy (1Ti.1.20 and 2Ti.2.17) as a man who had strayed from the truth and was causing harm to the faith of others.
In 1Ti.1.20, Paul states that he had handed Hymenaeus and Alexander over to Satan so that they might learn not to blaspheme. This suggests that Hymenaeus had engaged in blasphemous speech or teachings that were contrary to the gospel. By handing him over to Satan, Paul likely meant that he had removed Hymenaeus from the protection and fellowship of the church, allowing him to experience the consequences of his sin with the hope that he would repent and return to the truth.
In 2Ti.2.17, Hymenaeus is mentioned along with Philetus as individuals who had departed from the truth and were promoting the false teaching that the resurrection had already taken place. This heretical view was undermining the faith of some believers. Paul compares their false teaching to gangrene, emphasizing its destructive nature and the need to confront it.
These passages highlight the importance of maintaining sound doctrine and the need to address false teachings that can lead people astray. They also demonstrate the role of church discipline in correcting those who persist in promoting views that are contrary to the gospel.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Hymenaeus is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Timothy (1) and 2 Timothy (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources