of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
Not to blaspheme ...  Such evil teaching as that of denying the resurrection was equivalent in every way to "speaking against God."  It is absurd to suppose that St. Paul here refers to a railing disparagement of his own apostolic claims."[46] We are not told here of the exact nature of their "blasphemy," but something far more serious than opposition to Paul is indicated.  The two sinners singled out in this verse were gross offenders whom Paul punished for the sake of checking the damage which their example might otherwise have wrought in the church.  If the denial of any future resurrection was involved in their behavior, along with the teaching that "the resurrection was passed already," this would have led to the exercise of all kinds of sins in the church.  "That suggests that they were antinomians, teaching that believers should continue in sin that grace may abound  (Romans 6:1).[47]