And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. All these references speak of the enemy trying to catch believers the enemy uses various means to entrap souls he is a hunter he walks about, seeking whom he may devour. You see bucks with large sets of antlers, indicating their age and wisdom and avoidance of many hunters before.
Trophies are game that have been hard to hunt and capture.
So Paul told Timothy that a christian must acknowledge the truth when they are ensnared by the devil at his will. I still do not rebuke the devil when in a trial. I do exactly what I always did. I cannot recover you. I wish I could.