2 Timothy 2:21

If a man therefore purge himself from these That is, as Bengel puts it, -if any one shall by purifying himself have gone out of their number." The compound verb -purge out" only occurs besides in 1 Corinthians 5:7 where the preposition gives the force -purge out from your houses the old leaven." Wordsworth forcibly notes here; -a man may at one timeof his life be numbered among vessels to dishonour, and yet may becomea vessel to honour, by cleansing himself out from their number and condition. Mark this assertion of Free Will." And again, -a Christian man may not go outof the great housewhich is the Visible Church of God: he cannot separate himself wholly from sinners, but he must cleanse himself from them as sinners; that is, he must not communicate with them in their sins."

sanctified Or perhaps better -purified." -Sanctified" belongs to metaphor, the implied Christian life and service; but in formthe sentence remains a simileto the end. Hence R.V. rightly renders the master's use, i.e. the master of the house, not with some printed copies of A.V. -the Master's," which would imply an immediate reference to God. -Meet for use" is the same word as in 2 Timothy 4:11 -serviceable," and in Philemon 1:11, where Onesimus formerly -unprofitable" is -now profitable."

prepared This word and -sanctified" are both perfect passive participles, and are more expressive than our English can shew of the resulting final state reached. See note on 2 Timothy 2:26.