Geneva Study Bible Commentary
2 Timothy 1:11
(5) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
(5) That is, the Gospel which the apostle preached.
(5) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
(5) That is, the Gospel which the apostle preached.
2 TIMOTHY 1:11 kai. dida,skaloj {B} Although the overwhelming mass of witnesses (all except a* A I 33 1175 syrpal) read evqnw/n, the Committee regarded the word as a gloss introduced by copyists from...
Verse 11. _WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER_] κηρυξ, a _herald_. Matthew 3:17, Matthew 3:17. _AND AN APOSTLE_] Sent immediately from God to man. _A TEACHER_] One whose business it is to _instruc...
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER - That is, I am appointed to make these truths known; see the notes at Ephesians 3:7....
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PAUL'S PERSONAL WORD TO TIMOTHY CHAPTER 1 _ 1. Paul's affectionate words and confidence (2 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. Difficulties and assurance (2 Timothy 1:6) 3. Holding the fo...
2 Timothy 1:6 to 2 Timothy 2:13. APPEAL TO TIMOTHY FOR COURAGE IN FACE OF DIFFICULTIES. (_a_) 2 Timothy 1:6. DIRECT APPEAL, BASED ON TIMOTHY'S ORDINATION GIFT. The false teachers have created a situat...
AN APOSTLE'S GLORY AND AN APOSTLE'S PRIVILEGE (2 Timothy 1:1-7)...
So, then, do not be ashamed to bear your witness to our Lord; and do not be ashamed of me his prisoner; but accept with me the suffering which the gospel brings, and do so in the power of God, who sav...
WHEREUNTO. Unto (Greek. _eis)_ which. AM. was. PREACHER. App-121. GENTILES. Greek. _ethnos_, Compare Acts 22:21; Acts 28:28; Romans 11:13;...
_whereunto I am appointed a preacher_ Rather, FOR WHICH I REMEMBER WAS APPOINTED A HERALD. St Paul -magnifies his office" here in the same terms as in 1 Timothy 2:7; but there to assert his authority...
CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...
ΔΙΔΆΣΚΑΛΟΣ ἘΘΝΩ͂Ν. ἐθνῶν is omitted by א*A 17, and it is regarded by some critical editors as introduced here from 1 Timothy 2:7, where it is certainly genuine; it is consequently omitted both by Tisc...
ΈΤΈΘΗΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G5087) назначать, избирать, ΚΉΡΥΞ (G2783) глашатай, проповедник (_см._ 1 Timothy 2:7)....
PART ONE _Exhortations 1:6-2:26_ 1. DO NOT BE ASHAMED 2 Timothy 1:6-18 a. Timothy 2 Timothy 1:6-11 _TEXT 1:6-11_ 6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, wh...
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. WHEREUNTO - For the publication of which gospel. I AM APPOINTED, [ etetheen (G5087)] 'I was appointed.' I AM A...
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...
1:11 herald (h-8) Or 'preacher,' as 1 Timothy 2:7 ; 2 Peter 2:5 ....
Exhortation to firmness in his glorious calling. 6. Stir up] as a fire that is beginning to die down. THE GIFT OF GOD] which he received at his ordination by the laying on of the hands of St. Paul and...
EXPRESSIONS OF AFFECTION AND EXHORTATIONS TO FAITHFULNESS 1, 2. Salutation. According to the promise of life] St. Paul declares himself appointed an Apostle with the view of his spreading the knowled...
HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK 2 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER AND TO WHOM HE WROTE At the end of the book of Acts, the *apostle Paul was still in pri...
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER.... — Whereunto — that is, to preach the gospel referred to in the previous verse. (On these titles see 1 Timothy 1:12; 1 Timothy 2:7.) In all his deep humiliation,...
εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην, κ. τ. λ.: See 1 Timothy 2:7, where these words are also found, and the note on 1 Timothy 1:11....
to 2 Timothy 2:2. The leading thoughts in this section are (_a_) the Day of reward and judgment which is surely coming (2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:18), (_b_) the unreasonableness therefore of cowardl...
“STIR UP THE GIFT WHICH IS IN THEE” 2 Timothy 1:1 Lonely and facing death the Apostle fell back on the bedrock of the will of God. If it were the divine plan that he should finish his life-work in th...
The second letter to Timothy was written from prison. Paul, conscious of the evil existing in the Church, forecast the terrible days that were coming. He was conscious also of the grave responsibility...
PAUL WAS NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Part of Paul's ability to be content in whatever state he was in must have come from the view expressed in 2 Timothy 1:8 (1 Peter 4:11; Ephesians 3:1;...
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, (10) But i...
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...
_LIFE AND INCORRUPTION_ ‘Life and Incorruption.’ 2 Timothy 1:10 (R.V.) The more we contrast the conceptions of the life after death in the two Testaments, the more certain does it become that the l...
11_To which I have been appointed _Not without good reason does he so highly commend the gospel along with his apostleship. Satan labors, beyond all things else, to banish from our hearts, by every po...
The Second Epistle to Timothy has a very peculiar character. It is the expression of his heart, who out side Palestine had, under God, founded and built the assembly of God on earth, and it was writte...
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER,.... Both from eternity, in the counsel and purpose of God, Acts 9:15 and in time, by the church at Antioch, and the prophets in it, according to the express order...
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. Ver. 11. _A teacher of the Gentiles_] His writings therefore should be the more highly prized and studied by us Gen...
_Whereunto_ For proclaiming which good news; _I am appointed a preacher_ Κηρυξ, _a herald;_ and _an apostle_ Invested with an extraordinary commission, and furnished with spiritual gifts to make me a...
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER AND AN APOSTLE AND A TEACHER OF THE GENTILES....
AN ADMONITION TO STEADFASTNESS....
Despite the fact of his heart being so drawn out in this epistle, Paul writes as "an apostle," not as a servant, nor even as a brother. Does this not stress the strongly authoritative character of tha...
6-14 God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers; the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition....
WHEREUNTO I AM APPOINTED A PREACHER; for the publication of which gracious counsel and purpose of God thus made manifest by Christ's coming, and of that life and immortality thus by the gospel brought...
2 Timothy 1:11 to G1519 which G3739 I G1473 appointed G5087 (G5681) preacher G2783 G2532 apostle G652 and...
2 Timothy 1:11. A PREACHER, AN APOSTLE, AND A TEACHER OF THE GENTILES. There is something characteristic in the way in which Paul the aged, here and in 1 Timothy 2:7, where we find the same combinatio...
FOR WHICH (εις ο). For the gospel. See 1 Timothy 2:7 for this verse....
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,_ Paul takes high ground. He is not an apostle by the will of the Church...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the...
CONTENTS: Apostolic greetings and exhortations to Timothy. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Eunice, Phygelus, Hermogenes, Onesiphorus. CONCLUSION: The best of Christ's servants ne...
2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus._ On this promise of eternal life the whole system of revelation is built; for this cause Paul was made an apostle, that...
GOD HAS APPOINTED ME. See 1 Timothy 2:7 and note....
_A preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles._ I. A public preacher is one who may discharge his office ever in one and the same place. II. An apostle goes about everywhere; but he wou...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy ...
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:6 Paul challenges Timothy to continue following in his footsteps (compare 2 Timothy 3:10)....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:8. OF ME HIS PRISONER.—This might mean—(_a_) the prisoner belonging to Him; or (_b_) one who is a prisoner for His sake; or again (_c_) one whom He has bou...
EXPOSITION 2 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _the life _for _life, _A.V. The life is a little clearer than _life, _as showing that "life" (not "promise") is the antecede...
Ver. 11. The reference to the gospel, introduced so casually at the close of the preceding verse, is taken by the apostle as a link to introduce what follows respecting his office, and what it called...
Shall we turn now to second Timothy? This is the last epistle that Paul wrote. He is again in prison in Rome. It would seem that he was released from the first imprisonment and allowed a little more t...
1 Timothy 1:7; 1 Timothy 2:7; Acts 9:15; Ephesians 3:7; Ephesians 3:8...
A teacher of the Gentiles [δ ι δ α σ κ α λ ο ς ε θ ν ω ν]. Omit of the Gentiles. Comp. 1 Timothy 2:7, from which the words were probably transferred when the three Epistles were jointly edited. Paul c...
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A CHRISTIAN 2 Timothy 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is a mistake to imagine that those who walk with Christ will find a level pathway without any valley or any mountain top, a path...