Who hath saved us — By faith. The love of the Father, the grace of our Saviour, and the whole economy of salvation, are here admirably described. Having called us with an holy calling — Which is all from God, and claims us all for God. According to his own purpose and grace — That is, his own gracious purpose. Which was given us — Fixed for our advantage, before the world began.
Verse 9. _WHO HATH SAVED US_] From sin; the spirit of bondage, and all tormenting fear. This is the design of the Gospel. _AND CALLED_ US _WITH A HOLY CALLING_] _Invited_ us to holiness and comfort h...
WHO HATH SAVED US; - See the notes at Matthew 1:21. He has brought us into a state in which salvation is so certain, that Paul could speak of it as if it were already done. AND CALLED US - see the not...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PAUL'S PERSONAL WORD TO TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Paul's affectionate words and confidence (2 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. Difficulties and assurance (2 Timothy 1:6) 3. Holding the fo...
2 Timothy 1:6 to 2 Timothy 2:13. APPEAL TO TIMOTHY FOR COURAGE IN FACE OF DIFFICULTIES. (_a_) 2 Timothy 1:6. DIRECT APPEAL, BASED ON TIMOTHY'S ORDINATION GIFT. The false teachers have created a situat...
AN APOSTLE'S GLORY AND AN APOSTLE'S PRIVILEGE (2 Timothy 1:1-7)...
So, then, do not be ashamed to bear your witness to our Lord; and do not be ashamed of me his prisoner; but accept with me the suffering which the gospel brings, and do so in the power of God, who sav...
BATH. Omit. SAVED. Compare 1 Timothy 1:1 CALLED. Compare 1 Timothy 6:12. PURPOSE. See Acts 11:23. BEFORE, &c. App-151....
_who hath saved us_ Rather, WHO SAVED US; the -saving" and -calling" should both be referred to the same point of time viz. Baptism; and 2 Timothy 1:9-10 are compressed by the Prayer-Book Catechism in...
ἩΜΑ͂Σ. Primarily in reference to Paul and Timothy, but true generally. ΣΏΣΑΝΤΟΣ. For the act of σωτηρία as applied to God, see on 1 Timothy 1:1. ΚΑῚ ΚΑΛΈΣΑΝΤΟΣ ΚΛΉΣΕΙ ἉΓΊΑ. This calling or _vocation_...
CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...
ΣΏΣΑΝΤΟΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΣΏΖΩ (G4982) спасать, избавлять. Оба _part._ логически предшествуют главному _imper._ (ст. 8). Оба они описывают спасение и призыв как отличительные черты Бога, ΚΑΛΈΣΑΝΤ...
DISCOURSE: 2241 EFFECTUAL CALLING 2 Timothy 1:9. _Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in...
WHO HATH SAVED US, &C.— "Who hath rescued us out of the evil world, and called us to sanctity, not because we had deserved that mercy of his, but of his own free mercy and goodness long ago designed u...
PART ONE _Exhortations 1:6-2:26_ 1. DO NOT BE ASHAMED 2 Timothy 1:6-18 a. Timothy 2 Timothy 1:6-11 _TEXT 1:6-11_ 6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, wh...
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, WHO ... CAL...
2 Timothy had been with the apostle in Rome, whence he was probably sent to Philippi (Php_2:19). The most loving and intimate relations existed between them, and Paul continually refers to him as his...
HATH SAVED] RV, more exactly, 'saved,' God by His free grace and mercy called, and still calls us into a state of salvation, not for our work's sake (which is a false view of justification), but accor...
Exhortation to firmness in his glorious calling. 6. Stir up] as a fire that is beginning to die down. THE GIFT OF GOD] which he received at his ordination by the laying on of the hands of St. Paul and...
EXPRESSIONS OF AFFECTION AND EXHORTATIONS TO FAITHFULNESS 1, 2. Salutation. According to the promise of life] St. Paul declares himself appointed an Apostle with the view of his spreading the knowled...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER AND TO WHOM HE WROTE At the end of the book of Acts, the *apostle Paul was still in pri...
WHO HATH SAVED US. — St. Paul now specifies the manner in which the power of God has been displayed towards us. This is an inclusive word, and comprehends all God’s dealings with us in respect to our...
τοῦ σώσαντος, κ. τ. λ.: The connexion, as has been just remarked, is that our recognition at our baptism of God's saving and calling grace He saved us and called us at a definite point of time (aor.)...
to 2 Timothy 2:2. The leading thoughts in this section are (_a_) the Day of reward and judgment which is surely coming (2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:18), (_b_) the unreasonableness therefore of cowardl...
“STIR UP THE GIFT WHICH IS IN THEE” 2 Timothy 1:1 Lonely and facing death the Apostle fell back on the bedrock of the will of God. If it were the divine plan that he should finish his life-work in th...
The second letter to Timothy was written from prison. Paul, conscious of the evil existing in the Church, forecast the terrible days that were coming. He was conscious also of the grave responsibility...
PAUL WAS NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Part of Paul's ability to be content in whatever state he was in must have come from the view expressed in 2 Timothy 1:8 (1 Peter 4:11; Ephesians 3:1;...
(4) Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was (h) given us in Christ Jesus (i) before the world began,...
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, (10) But i...
Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
9_Who hath saved us _From the greatness of the benefit he shews how much we owe to God; for the salvation which he has bestowed on us easily swallows up all the evils that must be endured in this worl...
The Second Epistle to Timothy has a very peculiar character. It is the expression of his heart, who out side Palestine had, under God, founded and built the assembly of God on earth, and it was writte...
WHO HATH SAVED US, AND CALLED US,.... And therefore should not be ashamed of his Gospel, but should readily partake of the afflictions of it, depending on his power to support under them. There is a s...
Who hath saved us, and called _us_ with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, Ver. 9. _Wi...
_Be not thou, therefore_ Discouraged by any dangers or trials; or _ashamed of the testimony of our Lord_ The gospel which testifies of Christ, or of testifying the truth and importance of it to all me...
GIVEN US-BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN; given us in God's eternal purpose....
WHO HATH SAVED US, AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING, NOT ACCORDING TO OUR WORKS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE, WHICH WAS GIVEN US IN CHRIST JESUS BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN,...
AN ADMONITION TO STEADFASTNESS....
Despite the fact of his heart being so drawn out in this epistle, Paul writes as "an apostle," not as a servant, nor even as a brother. Does this not stress the strongly authoritative character of tha...
6-14 God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition....
WHO HATH SAVED US; that is, brought us into a state of salvation, and given us a right to it. AND CALLED US WITH AN HOLY CALLING; and, in order to our obtaining it, hath effectually called, renewed, a...
2 Timothy 1:9 who G3588 saved G4982 (G5660) us G2248 and G2532 called G2564 (G5660) holy G40 calling...
2 Timothy 1:9. The tram of thought obviously is: God has done so much for us. Shall we not at least do something for Him, if only by exercising the gifts He has bestowed on us? After his manner, once...
CALLED US WITH A HOLY CALLING (καλεσαντος κλησε αγια). Probably dative, "to a holy calling." Κλησις here apparently not the invitation, but the consecrated service, "the upward calling" (Philippians...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _ GRACE Grace (in salvation). (Titus 2:11); (Romans 3:24). ( See Scofield) - ...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,_ Paul takes high ground. He is not an apostle by the will of the Church...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the...
CONTENTS: Apostolic greetings and exhortations to Timothy. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Eunice, Phygelus, Hermogenes, Onesiphorus. CONCLUSION: The best of Christ's servants ne...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus._ On this promise of eternal life the whole system of revelation is built; for this cause Paul was made an apostle, that...
HE SAVED US. "God gives us our strength! He called us to be his own people (John 6:44-45)_."_ NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE. He mentions this in Titus 3:3-5; Romans 5:8;...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy ...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:6 Paul challenges Timothy to continue following in his footsteps (compare 2 Timothy 3:10)....
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:8 These verses summarize the GOSPEL for which God’s servants suffer. Paul clearly believes that such a glorious message is worthy of their suffering. God, who saved us......
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:8. OF ME HIS PRISONER.—This might mean—(_a_) the prisoner belonging to Him; or (_b_) one who is a prisoner for His sake; or again (_c_) one whom He has bou...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _the life _for _life, _A.V. The life is a little clearer than _life, _as showing that "life" (not "promise") is the antecede...
Ver. 9. The apostle now proceeds to give a brief but graphic description of this manifested power of God in the matter of salvation: _Who saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to...
Shall we turn now to second Timothy? This is the last epistle that Paul wrote. He is again in prison in Rome. It would seem that he was released from the first imprisonment and allowed a little more t...
1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 3:21; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 Peter 1:15;...
Who hath saved us. Salvation is ascribed to God. See on our Savior, 1 Timothy 1:1. Called [κ α λ ε σ α ν τ ο ς]. Comp. 1 Timothy 6:12, and see Romans 8:30;...
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A CHRISTIAN 2 Timothy 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is a mistake to imagine that those who walk with Christ will find a level pathway without any valley or any mountain top, a path...
As if the apostle had said, "To fortify thee against the fear of those persecutions, and to arm thee against the shame of those reproaches, which may probably attend thee in the work of the gospel, co...