Verse 14. _ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH_] We are not to understand this of any _tradesman_, but of some _rabbin_; for it was not unusual for the Jews to apply the name of some _trade_ as an epithet to t...
ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH - Or, rather, “the brazier” - ὁ χαλκεύς ho chalkeus. The word is used, however, to denote a worker in any kind of metals. This is probably the same person who is mentioned...
IV. THE LAST WORDS OF THE APOSTLE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The last charge (2 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. His last testimony (2 Timothy 4:6) 3. The last personal messages (2 Timothy 4:9)...
PERSONAL REQUESTS AND PERSONAL NEWS. Timothy's summons to Rome seems inconsistent with the discharge of the duties just enforced. If the letter is a unity, its main instructions may concern his condu...
Do your best to come and see me soon. Demas has deserted me, because he loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me....
PAUL'S GROUNDS OF APPEAL (2 Timothy 4:1-5)...
ALEXANDER. The addition of "coppersmith" suggests his identity with the Ephesian Jew of Acts 19:33; Acts 19:34, COPPERSMITH. Greek. _chalkeus._ Only here. DID. Literally showed forth. MUCH EVIL. ma...
Dr Farrar's suggestion for the link of connexion is possible, that St Paul's second arrest took place at Troas, and that such an one as Alexander the coppersmith could easily have procured his arrest,...
The scattering of friends. Entreaty for Timothy's presence. Assurance of the Lord's present help The connexion is: -Do your best to come to me to come with all speed to come before the winter stops y...
_did me much evil_ The Greek word has a technical meaning, -impeached," -indicted," and so it is sometimes rendered here -laid many grievous things to my charge"; but it is in the simpler sense, - _sh...
ἈΠΟΔΏΣΕΙ. This, the reading of אACD2*E*G &c., must certainly be preferred to the rec. ἀποδῴη of D2cKL, which appears to have come in from a reminiscence of 2 Timothy 1:16; 2 Timothy 1:18. 14. ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡ...
ΧΑΛΚΕΎΣ (G5471) тот, кто работает с медью, кузнец. Это слово обозначает не только того, кто работает с медью. Это вообще работник по металлу (EGT). ΈΝΕΔΕΊΞΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΝΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ (G...
ALEXANDER THE COPPER-SMITH, &C.— Dr. Lightfoot observes, that _delivering a person over to Satan,_ was a phrase well known among the Jews; and that it meant more than _excommunication,_ even the deliv...
REQUEST FOR TIMOTHY TO COME BACK TO PAUL 2 Timothy 4:9-15 _TEXT 4:9-15_ 9 Give diligence to come shortly unto me: 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica;...
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH - or 'smith,' some think. Perhaps the same as the Alexander (1 Timothy 1:20; note t...
12 This is a crucial test of our true state. Are we suffering persecution? If not, are we in earnest in our will to live devoutly in Christ Jesus? All who tread this path will be persecuted. Paul hims...
4:14 did (k-4) Compare Genesis 50:15 ,Genesis 50:17 . Lit. 'showed me,' but we do not say 'show evil' in English, though we say 'show kindness,' referring to acts, because they show what is in the hea...
ST. PAUL'S LAST MESSAGES AND COUNSELS 1-8. The Apostle, knowing that his days are fast drawing to a close, exhorts Timothy to increased diligence and earnestness in his teaching, in view of the immin...
ALEXANDER] may be the same as the Alexander mentioned (1 Timothy 1:20) in conjunction with Hymenaeus. He had evidently been an opponent of St. Paul's teaching. 16-22. The Apostle mentions the circums...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 *PREACH THE *GOSPEL AND TEACH THE TRUTH (4:1-5) V1 This command I give to you with God and the *Lord Jesus...
ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH DID ME MUCH EVIL. — Most probably, the same Alexander, mentioned in the First Epistle (1 Timothy 1:20) “as delivered to Satan,” and not improbably identical with the Alexande...
CHAPTER 36 THE PERSONAL DETAILS A GUARANTEE OF GENUINENESS. IT would scarcely be exceeding the limits of legitimate hyperbole to say that these two passages prove the authenticity and genuineness of...
Beware of Alexander the smith....
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ χαλκεύς : It is probable that this is the Alexander mentioned in 1 Timothy 1:20, and it is possible that he may be the Jew of that name who was unwillingly prominent in the riot at Ephesu...
“THE LORD STOOD BY ME” 2 Timothy 4:13 The winter was approaching, and the Apostle would be glad of his cloak amid the damp of the Mamertine prison. Evidently his arrest under Nero's orders had been s...
As the result of these charges, the apostle shows what Timothy's attitude must be toward those over whom he has oversight. There are four things which he must do. "Preach the Word," "reprove," "rebuke...
PAUL'S DESIRE FOR COMPANIONSHIP Paul asked Timothy to make it his business to come to him as soon as he possibly could. Demas loved the world instead of the Lord's coming, so he forsook the Lord's ser...
_The Lord will render [8] to him. We read shall render, not only in the Latin and Syriac, but also in divers Greek manuscripts which Dr. Wells again prefers before the ordinary Greek copies, in which...
(9) В¶ Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: (10) For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. (11) Onl...
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...
14_Alexander the coppersmith _In this man was exhibited a shocking instance of apostasy. He had made profession of some zeal in advancing the reign of Christ, against which he afterwards carried on op...
Does this perfect and supreme authority of the scriptures set aside ministry ? By no means; it is the foundation of the ministry of the word. One is a minister of the word; one proclaims the word rest...
ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH DID ME MUCH EVIL,.... This seems to be the same person that was at Ephesus in the tumult, when the apostle was there, Acts 20:33 and whom he afterwards delivered to Satan, al...
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works: Ver. 14. _Alexander the coppersmith_] Who was once _martyrio propinquus, _ saith Calvin, near unto martyrdom in...
_Alexander the coppersmith_ Or brasier; _did me much evil_ This seems to have been the person mentioned 1 Timothy 1:20: probably he was one of the Judaizing teachers, who violently opposed the true do...
ALEXANDER, THE COPPERSMITH, DID ME MUCH EVIL; THE LORD REWARD HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS;...
A REPORT CONCERNING VARIOUS ACQUAINTANCES AND THE FIRST HEARING. Various personal matters:...
The apostle writes this last chapter with a deepening sense in his soul of the nearness of his martyrdom; and it is most precious to observe how the solemnity of his charge to Timothy is mingled with...
14-18 There is as much danger from false brethren, as from open enemies. It is dangerous having to do with those who would be enemies to such a man as Paul. The Christians at Rome were forward to mee...
ALESANDER THE COPPERSMITH DID ME MUCH EVIL; we read of three Alexanders; one MARK 15:21, the son of him that bare Christ's cross; another ACTS 4:6, akin to Annas the High Priest; a third, ACTS 19:33,...
Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ The famous Alexander,[229]...
2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander G223 coppersmith G5471 did G1731 (G5668) me G3427 much G4183 harm G2556 May G591 Lord...
2 Timothy 4:14. ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH. Possibly identical with the man of the same name in Acts 19:33, and with the false teacher of 1 Timothy 1:20. Enmity against St. Paul is a common element in...
ALEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH (Αλεξανδρος ο χαλκευς). Old word, only here in N.T., for metal-worker (copper, iron, gold, etc.). Possibly the one in 2 Timothy 1:20, but not the one in Acts 19:33 unless...
LORD Jehovah. (2 Samuel 3:39)....
CONTENTS: Christ's faithful servant and the faithfulness of Christ to His own. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Demas, Timothy, Luke, Mark, Tychicus, Carpus, Alexander, Prisca, Aquila, Onesiphorus, Era...
2 Timothy 4:1. _I charge thee therefore before God preach the word._ Paul speaks here as a dying man, soon to appear before the throne of God and the Lamb. Soldiers must not sleep in war without a wat...
ALEXANDER THE METALWORKER. _MacKnight_ identifies him as the one who was in the riot at Ephesus (Acts 19:33). DID ME GREAT HARM. If this took place at Ephesus, Timothy would already know about it. _Ma...
_Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil._ INDIGNATION AN IMPORTANT QUALITY IN A TRUE MAN At a party at Dalkeith Palace, where Mr. in his mawkish way was finding palliations for some villainous t...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 4:14. THE LORD REWARD HIM ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS.—R.V. “the Lord will render,” etc. What the Jew Alexander would have said to the Ephesian mob we cannot now...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 4:1 _In the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus _for _therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _and by _for _at, _A.V. and T.R. I CHARGE THEE (διαμαρτύρομαι...
Ver. 14. _Alexander the coppersmith_ (or, simply _smith_; for latterly χαλκεὺς came to signify a worker in metals of any sort, and particularly in iron, as being the most frequently used) _did me much...
Paul said to Timothy, I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 4:1), Hey, that's heavy duty, man, when you charge a person before God and before the Lord Jesus Christ. Laying a...
1 John 5:16; 1 Samuel 24:12; 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Samuel 3:39;...
Alexander the coppersmith. Comp. 1 Timothy 1:20, and Acts 19:33. The same person is probably meant in all three cases. Did me much evil [π ο λ λ α μ ο ι κ α κ α ε ν ε δ ε ι ξ α τ ο]. Lit. shewed me mu...
The Lord will reward him — This he spoke prophetically....
Here our apostle, 1. Complains of the injuries and oppositions which he had met with from AEXANDER THE COPPERSMITH, who was before. great professor, but now become. grievous persecutor: He made shipwr...