2 Timothy 1:15

all they which are in Asia be turned away Omit -be"; the tense describes a definite act, not a continuing state. We are left to conjecture when and where this desertion took place. -They which are in Asia" implies the residents in Asia, but the desertion may have been either in Asia, between the first and second imprisonments, or in Rome: perhaps the former more probably, on the ground that Timothy's knowledge of it is appealed to, as also is his knowledge of Onesiphorus" service at Ephesus, while the help rendered by Onesiphorus at Rome is spoken of independently. The -Asia" meant is the Roman province according to most Commentators (Howson, Dict. Bib.) which embraced Lydia, Mysia, Caria, and Phrygia, as distinguished from -Asia Minor" commonly so called and from the continent of Asia. Lewin however (Life and Epistles of St Paul, 1. p. 190) identifies the Asia of N.T. with Lydia alone, i.e. from the Caicus to the Mæander, with the plain of the Cayster within it, which Homer calls -the Asian Meadow," cf. Il. 11. 461, Virg. Georg. 1. 383, -Asia … prata Caystri"; and he makes three strong points: (1) that the -Mysia of Acts 16:6 seems clearly separated there from-Asia"; (2) that - theseven churches which are in Asia" on this hypothesis just cover the whole district; (3) that -the dwellers in Asia" of Acts 2:9 heard their own language, not threelanguages, Lydian, Mysian and Carian. Prof. Ramsay, the most recent authority on the geography of Asia Minor, appears to support this latter view.

of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes The mss. favour the form Phygelus, but nothing is known of him; or yet of Hermogenes.