Darby's translation notes (1890)
2 Timothy 2:3
2:3 suffering (c-5) See ch. 1.8. Christ. (d-12) Or 'Christ Jesus,' according to some authorities.
2:3 suffering (c-5) See ch. 1.8. Christ. (d-12) Or 'Christ Jesus,' according to some authorities.
2 TIMOTHY 2:3 sugkakopa,qhson The Textus Receptus, following C2 Dc K L most minuscules syrh goth Chrysostom Euthalius Theodoret John-Damascus, reads su. ou=n kakopa,qhson. Probably the beginning of v...
Verse 2 Timothy 2:3. _ENDURE HARDNESS_] He considers a Christian minister under the notion of a _soldier_, not so much for his continual conflicts with the world, the devil, and the flesh, for these a...
THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS, AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST - Such hardships as a soldier is called to endure. The apostle supposes that a minister of the gospel might be called to endure hardsh...
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)...
Accept your share in suffering like a fine soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier who is on active service entangles himself in ordinary civilian business; he lays aside such things, so that by good serv...
ENDURE HARDNESS. Greek. _kakopatheo_. Literally suffer EVIL. Here, 2 Timothy 2:9; 2 Timothy 4:5; James 5:13. JESUS CHRIST. The texts read "Christ Jesus", as...
_Thou therefore endure hardness_ The best mss. give one compound verb instead of pronoun conjunction and simple verb, TAKE-PART IN-SUFFERING-HARDSHIP. As our A.V. stands, the words may seem hard and s...
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...
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...
3, 4. _a._ THE EXAMPLE OF THE SOLDIER...
ΣΥΝΚΑΚΟΠΆΘΗΣΟΝ. The rec. text has σὺ οὖν κακοπάθησον with a few authorities; but the evidence is convincing for συνκακοπάθησον. ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂. The rec. text has Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ with D2cKL; but the or...
REPETITION OF CHARGE I. BE STRONG IN CHRIST’S STRENGTH...
ΣΥΓΚΑΚΟΠΆΘΗΣΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΣΥΓΚΑΚΟΠΑΘΈΩ (G4777) вместе страдать от зла, вместе переносить тяготы, вместе терпеть грубое обращение (Kelly), ΣΤΡΑΤΙΏΤΗΣ (G4757) солдат. Римский солдат всегда б...
b. As a Soldier 2 Timothy 2:3-4 _TEXT 2:3, 4_ 3 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may pleas...
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS. 'Aleph (') A C Delta G, Vulgate, have no "Thou therefore," but 'Endure hardship with' (me): share...
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...
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...
THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS. — The older authorities do not contain the Greek word rendered “thou therefore.” The word translated “endure hardness” in the older authorities is compounded with a pre...
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,...
συνκακοπάθησον : _Take thy part in suffering hardship_ (R.V.m.). This general reference is better than to supply μοι, as R.V. See note on 2 Timothy 1:8. στρατιώτης : _cf._ συνστρατιώτης, Philippians 2...
“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...
(2) Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (2) Another admonition: that the ministry of the word is a spiritual warfare, which no man can so travail in that he pleases his...
_Labour. [1] The Greek word implies, take pains in suffering; as Chap. i. 8. --- As a good soldier, &c. The apostle bringeth three comparisons: 1. of a soldier; 2. of one that strives and runs for a p...
(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...
_THE WAR OF THE LORD_ ‘Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.’ 2 Timothy 2:3 The good soldier of Jesus Christ! I. EYES FIXED.—He turns neither to the right hand nor to...
3_Do thou therefore endure afflictions _Not without strong necessity has he added this second exhortation; for they who offer their obedience to Christ must be prepared for “enduring afflictions;” and...
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...
THOU THEREFORE ENDURE HARDNESS,.... "Or afflictions"; as in 2 Timothy 4:5. The same word is used there as here, and properly signifies, "suffer evil"; and means the evil of afflictions, as persecution...
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Ver. 3. _Endure hardship_] Never dream of a delicacy; think not to find God in the gardens of Egypt, whom Moses found not but in the...
_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...
ENDURE HARDNESS; such hardships as he would meet with in preaching the gospel....
THOU, THEREFORE, ENDURE HARDNESS AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST....
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...
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...
ENDURE HARDNESS; in the Greek it is, suffer evils, that is evils of affliction, expect them, and encounter and patiently eudure them. AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST; remembering that the life of a...
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics against those who said that "the resurrection was past already."[349] Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity Of course the houses of none but married men...
2 Timothy 2:3 You G4771 therefore G3767 hardship G2553 (G5657) as G5613 good G2570 soldier G4757 Jesus G2424 Christ
2 Timothy 2:3. ENDURE HARDNESS. The word is the same as that rendered in 2 Timothy 1:8, ‘be thou partaker of the afflictions.' ‘ _Take thy share in hardships'_ would express its meaning. We lose the e...
SUFFER HARDSHIP WITH ME (συνκακοπαθησον). See 2 Timothy 1:8 for this verb. The old preacher challenges the young one to share hardship with him for Christ.AS A GOOD SOLDIER (ος καλος στρατιωτης)....
2 Timothy 2:3 True Bravery. I. Many a hero in ancient and modern times is glorified, and many a conquered man is despised, when the so-called hero trusted to his strength of mind or body, and felt co...
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...
TAKE YOUR PART. A soldier must suffer as well as fight. Timothy must set an example for others to follow....
_Endure hardness as a good soldier._ THE CHRISTIAN SOLDIER Every Christian, and especially every Christian minister, may be regarded as a soldier, as an athlete (2 Timothy 2:5). as a husbandman (2 Ti...
_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. 3. _Suffer hardship with me_ (συγκακοπάθησον, the reading of א, A, C, D, F at first hand, is undoubtedly the correct text, not σὺ οὔν κακοπάθησον of the received text), or “take thy share in...
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 13:7; 1 Timothy 1:18; 2 Corinthians 1:6; 2 Corinthians 10:3;...
Endure hardness [σ υ ν κ α κ ο π α θ η σ ο ν]. Comp. chapter 2 Timothy 1:8. A. V. verse fails to give the force of sun with. Rend. suffer hardship with me. Soldier [σ τ ρ α τ ι ω τ η ς]. Only here in...
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...
Still we find our apostle prosecuting the great and general design of this epistle, which is to direct Timothy in the faithful discharge of his office, as. minister of the gospel, and particularly to...