Topic: Persons Of The Bible - Philetus

The name "Philetus" means "beloved" in Greek. The name also means "amiable or beloved."

With Hymenaeus, at Ephesus, Philetus said that the "resurrection was past already" (2 Tim. 2:17, 18). This was a Gnostic heresy held by the Nicolaitanes. Hymenaeus is named without him in an earlier epistle. (1 Timothy 1:20) (A.D. 68-64)

In particular, they appear to have been persons who believed the Scripture of the Old Testament, but misinterpreted them, allegorizing away the doctrine of the resurrection and resolving it all into figure and metaphor. The delivering over unto Satan seems to have been a form of excommunication declaring the person reduced to the state of a heathen; and in the apostolic age it was accompanied with supernatural or miraculous effects upon the bodies of the persons so delivered.

Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries

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