First share of the harvest. The farmer receives his share, no matter how poor the crop may be, because he has worked. "The soldier gives up civilian life; the athlete obeys the rules; the farmer works hard and waits for the harvest. You, Timothy, must put the Lord first, suffer when necessary, and work patiently, to receive your reward (Revelation 22:12)."
Verse 6. _THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH_] That is: The _husbandman_ must _first_ till his ground before he can expect a crop; and he must till it according to the proper _rules_ of _agriculture_, els...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH - The margin is, “labouring first, must be partaker.” The idea, according to the translation in the text, is, that there is a fitness or propriety (δει dei) that the man...
II. FAITH'S CONFLICT AND THE BELIEVER'S PATH CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The apostle's charge (2 Timothy 2:1)_ 2. As soldier and husbandman (2 Timothy 2:3) 3. Identification with Christ (2 Timothy 2:8) 4
(_d_) 2 Timothy 2:1. THE APPEAL RENEWED. Thus enriched in his ordination, challenged by Paul's example, and warned by the Asian defection, Timothy, for all his work, must find continual strength in hi...
THE CHAIN OF TEACHING (2 Timothy 2:1-2)...
It is the toiling husbandman who must be first to receive his share of the fruits. Think of what I am saying, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things. To represent the Christian life P...
FIRST, &c.. the first to partake....
_The husbandman that laboureth_ This third illustration is well known from St Paul's use, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9, where the substantive corresponding to -farmer" or -husbandman" occurs. -Ye are God's hus...
The three illustrations follow of the soldier, the athlete, the farmer, with the common point of _persevering pains_. They are all familiar to St Paul. That of the soldier has occurred already, 1 Timo...
Personal and Ministerial Zeal enforced by Parables from the life of the Soldier, the Athlete and the Farmer The Apostle resumes the main thread of exhortation to Christian courage. After its enforcem...
_c._ THE EXAMPLE OF THE HUSBANDMAN 6. ΤῸΝ ΚΟΠΙΩ͂ΝΤΑ ΓΕΩΡΓῸΝ ΔΕΙ͂ Κ.Τ.Λ., _the husbandman that laboureth must first_, sc. before him who is lazy and careless, _partake of the fruits_. The emphatic word...
REPETITION OF CHARGE I. BE STRONG IN CHRIST’S STRENGTH...
ΚΟΠΙΏΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΟΠΙΆΩ (G2872) работать, работать до изнеможения. _Adj._ использование _part._: трудолюбивый землепашец, который работает до изнеможения. ΓΕΩΡΓΌΣ (G1092) земледелец,...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH, &C.— Or _The husbandman must first labour, to partake of the fruits._ Heylin, and Bowyer....
d. As a farmer 2 Timothy 2:6-13 _TEXT 2:6-13_ 6 The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all thin...
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. MUST BE FIRST (BEFORE ALL OTHERS) PARTAKER. The right of first partaking of the fruits belongs to him who is not merely a farmer...
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...
2:6 labour (f-4) It might be rendered, 'The labouring husbandman ought to be the first to partake (as Hebrews 6:7 ) of the fruits.' But the sense is that he must work first in order to partake....
EXHORTATIONS TO FLRMNESS, UNCONTENTIOUSNESS, AND PERSEVERANCE 1-26. The duties of God's ministers are, (1) to maintain the faith against assailants and seducers (2 Timothy 2:1; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2 Timot...
ENDURE HARDNESS] RV 'suffer hardship with me.' A GOOD SOLDIER] The soldier's virtue is to be shown in resisting, (1) the enemies of the faith, (2) all evil; and with this end in view he will not devot...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 APPEAL TO BE STRONG AND TO SUFFER (2:1-13) V1 You then, my child, be strong with the help of Christ Jesus...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH MUST BE FIRST PARTAKER OF THE FRUITS. — Again the picture is painted from every-day life. “The husbandman that laboureth” — with an emphasis upon “that laboureth” — is th...
CHAPTER 30 THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE AS MILITARY SERVICE; AS AN ATHLETIC CONTEST; AS HUSBANDRY. - 2 Timothy 2:3 ST. PAUL represents the Christian life and the Christian ministry under a variety of figures...
The condition of all success is toil; toil which may involve pain. Think of the price of a soldier's victory, the conditions of an athlete's crown, of a field-labourer's wage. Our Lord Jesus Himself,...
The difficulty in this verse is that the principle here laid down seems to be employed in 1 Corinthians 9:7; 1 Corinthians 9:9, as an argument from analogy in support of the liberty of Christian minis...
“A GOOD SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS” 2 Timothy 2:1 _ Soldier_, 2 Timothy 2:1: There is grace enough in Jesus for every need, but we must avail ourselves of it. We can expect nothing less than hardship, s...
In order to fulfil the ideal revealed in the instructions, Timothy was charged to "be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The apostle employed three figures of speech, the soldier, the...
DIFFERENT IMAGES OF A MINISTER'S LIFE If Timothy was to pass along the gospel, he would have to be prepared to suffer persecution, self denial and the onslaught of the enemy like a soldier on active d...
(4) The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. (4) Another similarity with respect to the same matter: no man may look for the harvest, unless he first take pains to plow and...
_The husbandman who laboureth [3] must first partake. Both the Latin and Greek texts admit of two interpretations: the sense may either be, that it is fitting the husbandman partake first and before o...
(1) В¶ Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. (2) And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be ab...
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...
6_The husbandman must labor before he receive the fruits _I am well aware that others render this passage differently; and I acknowledge that they translate, word for word, what Paul has written in Gr...
The truth was the especial treasure committed to him; and he has not only to keep it, as we have seen, but to take care that it was propagated and communicated to others after him, and perhaps still f...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH,.... In manuring his ground, in ploughing, in sowing, in weeding, in reaping, c. MUST BE FIRST PARTAKER OF THE FRUITS of his labour, before others; and the design may be...
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. Ver. 6. _The husbandman labouring first_] _Spes alit agricolas. Nae illi falsi sunt_ (saith Salhst, in Jugur.) _qui diversissimas r...
_Thou therefore endure hardness_ Κακοπαθησον, literally, _endure evil;_ that is, expect persecutions and various sufferings, and, by the powerful aids of divine grace, endure them with courage, consta...
THE HUSBANDMAN; must first labor, according to the laws which God has established, before he can be partaker of the fruits. So with ministers. Verses 2 Timothy 2:4-5....
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABORETH MUST BE FIRST PARTAKER OF THE FRUITS....
ADMONITION TO FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY....
If in chapter 1 we have seen the blessedness of God's abiding presence in His beloved saints - whatever may be the human failure everywhere - now in chapter 2, verses 1 to 13, there is a resulting con...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH, MUST BE FIRST PARTAKER OF THE FRUITS: Or, the husbandman laboring first must be partaker of the fruits...
1-7 As our trials increase, we need to grow stronger in that which is good; our faith stronger, our resolution stronger, our love to God and Christ stronger. This is opposed to our being strong in ou...
As the apostle had before compared the minister of the gospel to a soldier, and from thence concluded his duty not to entangle himself unnecessarily in secular employments; and to those that exercised...
2 Timothy 2:6 hard-working G2872 (G5723) farmer G1092 be G1163 (G5748) first G4413 partake G3335 (G5721) crops...
2 Timothy 2:6. THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH. The Greek, which expresses the qualifying clause by a present participle, implies labour during the (harvest or vintage rather than in the earlier stages...
THE HUSBANDMAN THAT LABOURETH (τον κοπιωντα γεωργον). "The toiling tiller of the soil" (γεωργον, from γη and εργω, worker of the earth). See γεωργιον (field) in 1 Corinthians 3:9 and also 1 Corinth...
2 Timothy 2:1. _Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus._ Is an exhortation to every one of us, not only to have grace, but to be strong in it. There are many professor...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall...
CONTENTS: Walk of a good soldier of Christ in times of apostasy. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, David, Hymenaeus, Philetus, Satan. CONCLUSION: Those who have work to do for Christ must stir them...
2 Timothy 2:1. _Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus._ Be strong in the Lord, and in every virtue. This is chiefly repeated from Ephesians 6:10. 2 Timothy 2:3. _Endure hardness,_ or hardship...
_The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits._ THE LABORING HUSBANDMAN The order of the Greek shows that the emphatic word is “labours.” It is the labouring husbandman who must...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 2:3. ENDURE HARDNESS.—R.V. “Suffer hardship with me.” Compare 2 Timothy 1:8, where the same word occurs. It would seem more consistent to refer the fellowsh...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 2:1 _Child _for _son_, A.V.; _strengthened _for _strong, _A.V. BE STRENGTHENED (ἐνδυναμοῦ)_; _more exactly (as Huther), _become strong, _or, which is the same thing, _strengthe...
Ver. 6. _The toiling;_ (κοπιῶντα, hard-working) _husbandman must first partake of the fruits,_ or, must be first in partaking of them; his very character as a man of hard labour gives him in this resp...
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace (2 Timothy 2:1) You see, it is legalism that is threatening the church. This idea that you can work yourself into divine favor. So "be strong in the gra...
1 Corinthians 3:6; 1 Corinthians 9:23; 1 Corinthians 9:7; Hebrews 10:36;...
The husbandman that laboreth [τ ο ν κ ο π ι ω ν τ α γ ε ω ρ γ ο ν]. The verb implies hard. wearisome toil. See on 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:12. Gewrgov Husbandman, only here in Pastorals....
THE CHRISTIAN'S TITLES 2 Timothy 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We will discuss the seven distinctive names under which Paul addressed his son in the faith. As a prelude to these seven names, it might be h...
Unless he labour first, he will reap no fruit....