2 Timothy 4:19

Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. PRISCA (PRISCILLA) AND AQUILA - at Ephesus (Acts 18:2; ; Romans 16:3; , written from Ephesus, PRISCA (PRISCILLA) AND AQUILA - at Ephesus (Acts 18:2; ; Romans 16:3; , written from Ephesus, where therefore Aquila and Priscilla must then h...

19-22 We need no more to make us happy, than to have the Lord Jesus Christ with our spirits; for in him all spiritual blessings are summed up. It is the best prayer we can offer for our friends, that the Lord Jesus Christ may be with their spirits, to sanctify and save them, and at last to receive them to himself. Many who believed as Paul, are now before the throne, giving glory to their Lord: may we be followers of them....

Verse 19. _SALUTE PRISCA AND AQUILA_] Several MSS., _versions_, and _fathers_ have _Priscilla_ instead of Prisca: they are probably the same as those mentioned Acts 18:18; Acts 18:26. _THE HOUSEHOLD OF ONESIPHORUS._] See 2 Timothy 1:16. Onesiphorus was probably at this time dead: his _family_ still remained at Ephesus....

SALUTE PRISCA AND AQUILA - Prisca, or Priscilla, was the wife of Aquila, though her name is sometimes mentioned first. In regard to their history, see the notes at Romans 16:3. They were at Rome when Paul wrote his Epistle to the Romans, but afterward went into Asia Minor, which was the native place of Aquila Acts 18:2, and where they probably died. AND THE HOUSEHOLD OF ONESIPHORUS; - see the notes on 2 Timothy 1:16....

EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 4:1 _In the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus _for _therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _and by _for _at, _A.V. and T.R. I CHARGE THEE (διαμαρτύρομαι); as 2 Timothy 2:14 and 1 Timothy 5:21 (where see note). The words οὖν ἐγώ, wanting in some of the best manuscripts, are "rejected by Griesbach, Tischendorf, Lachmann," and by Huther, Alford, Ellicott, and others. The chapter opens rather abruptly without the connecting "therefore." AND BY HIS APPEARING AND HIS KINGDOM. The reading of the T.R., κατὰ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν κ.τ.λ.., "at his appearing and kingdom," makes suc

SALUTE PRISCA AND AQUILA,.... The same with Priscilla and Aquila: and so the Complutensian edition, and some copies, read here; who were of the same occupation with the apostle, and with whom he wrought at Corinth, and whom he left at Ephesus; and who seem by this salutation to have continued there, Acts 18:2. AND THE HOUSEHOLD OF ONESIPHORUS: who also lived at Ephesus, and whose kindness to the apostle, when he was at Rome, is before mentioned, 2 Timothy 1:16....

2 TIMOTHY 4:19 VAku,lan After VAku,lan two minuscules (181 and 460, of the eleventh and thirteenth centuries respectively) insert Le,ktran th.n gunai/ka auvtou/ kai. Simai,an (Shmai,an 460_)_ kai. Zh,nwna tou/ ui`ou.j auvtou/. Since, according to the apocryphal _Acts of Paul and Thecla_ (§ 2), these are the names of the wife and the children of Onesiphorus, the gloss was evidently written first in the margin and later introduced into the text at the wrong place (giving Aquila two wives!)....

IV. THE LAST WORDS OF THE APOSTLE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The last charge (2 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. His last testimony (2 Timothy 4:6) 3. The last personal messages (2 Timothy 4:9) 2 Timothy 4:1 This last chapter is a most impressive one. It is the farewell of this great man of God. joy and sorrow, confidence and love breathe in his final charge and message. “The sorrow that he might have in his soul was only for those he was leaving, and even that is almost swallowed up in the joyful consciousness of the thought with whom he was leaving them.” And so he delivers one more charge, and that solemnly before

PERSONAL REQUESTS AND PERSONAL NEWS. Timothy's summons to Rome seems inconsistent with the discharge of the duties just enforced. If the letter is a unity, its main instructions may concern his conduct after, as well as before, his visit to Rome and Paul's death (Ramsay). For the significance of the historical allusions that follow, see Introduction, at end of § 1. Others being absent on different missions, only Luke, of Paul's immediate circle, is now with him (2 Timothy 4:21 names merely local acquaintances). Let Timothy bring Mark, reconciled to Paul since Acts 15:38 (Colossians 4:10), and able, in Tychicus-' absence, to render needed personal service (contrast AV); and also Paul's travelling-cloak, with cert

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