2 Timothy 2:4

Noman that warreth More literally no one on service, as in Luke 3:18 -men on march" came to St John Baptist. Carr, however, there quotes instances from the classics for the absence of the article, Eur. Ion639, Med. 68, as shewing that possibly it may be used irregularly as a substantive, -no fighting man."

entangleth himself with the affairs ofthis life The verb occurs only here and in 2 Peter 2:20; the noun only here: -affairs," in the sense in which we speak of a -man of affairs" skilled in public business; the word has been debased and generalised since the writing of A.V. and of Shakespeare's

-There is a tide in the affairsof men

Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune."

And now we use the word chiefly of -the affairs of every-day life" and the like. The Vulg. has well -implicat se negotiis secularibus."

who hath chosenhim] Rather, who enrolled him; the word is only here in N.T., a later Greek word.