Introductory Salutation (2 Timothy 1:1 f.) and Thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3). For the official form of salutation cf. 1 Timothy 1:1 f.*

Moved by affectionate remembrance, Paul, thanks God for some recent reminder of Timothy's faith, a faith witnessed earlier in his mother and grandmother.

2 Timothy 1:2. mercy: 1 Timothy 1:2 *.

2 Timothy 1:3. The ground of thanksgiving is 2 Timothy 1:5 (contrast AV and RV), and the true rendering: I thank God. since my remembrance. is unceasing. that I have been reminded.

2 Timothy 1:4. tears at their last separation. faith: not Jewish (Zahn), but as the sequence of thought demands, Christian. Eunice: Acts 16:1.

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