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Philetus
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
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Coupled with Hymenaeus as "erring" (missing the aim: estocheesan ), and holding that "the resurrection is past already" (2 Timothy 2:17), as if it were merely the spiritual raising of souls from the death of sin: perverting Romans 6:4; Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12; compare 1 Corinthians 15:12, etc. (See HYMENAEUS.) So the Seleucians or Hermians taught (Augustine, Ep. 119:55 ad Januar. 4); the germs of Gnosticism, which fully developed itself in the second century.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Philetus'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/philetus.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Philetus'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/p/philetus.html. 1949.
