But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
latter times: This expression literally means the after-times (MacKnight 455) or, according to Thayer, "a fixed and definite time" (318), or "coming after" (646). In other words, in times future to Paul’s writing, these false teachers will appear. Because of the plural, it seems that these seasons shall be recurrent.