is an express comparison in 2 Tim. 2:21, 22, to mark the state into which Christian profession was already growing, as judged by the Spirit, and would eventually result in, as we all see now: the house of God once regulated by divine order, as in 1 Tim., and provided for by divine grace and truth in 2 Tim. Observe, that in 1 Cor. 5, it is a question of purging out the old leaven (i.e., putting away from among the saints the wicked person), in 2 Tim. 2. of purging oneself out from the vessels to dishonor in Christendom.