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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO II TIMOTHY 1 In this chapter, after the inscription and salutation, the apostle expresses his great affection for Timothy, and highly commends him; exhorts him to various things relating to his office, as a preacher of the Gospel; and concludes with taking notice of the kindness shown him by Onesiphorus. The inscription and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ,.... Not of men, nor by men, but by Jesus Christ, from whom he was sent; by whom he was qualified; in whose name he came, and ministered; and whom he preached. Of his name Paul, and of his office, as an apostle, [See comments on Romans 1:1] into which office he came by the will of God; not by the will of man, no,...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Introduction; Timothy's Faith and Holiness. (a. d. 66.) 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, 2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: There is the greatest possible affection between the preacher and his convert. This is a relationship which even death will not destroy. They neither marry nor are given in marriage in the Heavenly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I would again remind you, as I have often done before, that the apostle Paul, when he is writing to a minister, invariably begins...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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, but an apostle by the will of God. God’s will is the great motive power in the Church of God. Some talk a great deal about man’s will. What think you of God’s will,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son,.... Not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; and not on account of his being an instrument of his conversion, but by reason of that instruction in the doctrines of the Gospel which he gave him, it being usual to call disciples children; and he calls him so, because as a son, he, being young in years, served...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord. It is not a little remarkable that, when the apostle writes to churches, he usually wishes them “Grace and peace”; but when he writes to a minister, he generally prays for “Grace, mercy, and peace”, as if we needed more mercy than other Christians. Having so great a work to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Son in the faith. When all the ties of natural descent shall be forgotten. sonship in Christ will continue. I do not doubt that in heaven Timothy is still Paul’s son; Paul is still father to Timothy, for the relation is of the Spirit. 2Ti_1:2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I thank God,.... After the inscription and salutation follows the preface to the epistle; which contains a thanksgiving to God upon Timothy's account, and has a tendency to engage his attention to what he was about to write to him in the body of the epistle. God is the object of praise and thanksgiving, both as the God of nature and providence,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; At that time, Timothy was very specially laid upon the apostle’s heart and he did not seem to think of anything without young Timothy’s image rising up before him “night and day.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; Thank God that Paul had such a sympathetic spirit, and that Timothy’s needs so continually rose before his supplicating eye, and that Paul was able to pray for Timothy, not with anxiety, not in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; For this Paul thanks God. He never forgot to pray for Timothy, and it is a matter of thankfulness. When we feel moved to pray, though it be for another, the spirit of prayer is essentially the same,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Greatly desiring to see thee,.... In his former epistle he had desired him to stay at Ephesus, there being some work for him to do, which made it necessary he should continue; but now having answered the apostle's purpose, and he standing in need of him at Rome, being without any assistant there, some having left him, and others were left by him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; Paul had seen Timothy’s tears when he parted from him. He remembered, perhaps, his tears when under conviction of sin, his tears of joy when he found the Saviour, and the tears he shed in his early preaching, when the gracious youth touched the hearts of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; I suppose that Timothy was very tender-hearted, and that he had been grieved because of Paul’s many afflictions; and, on his part, the apostle greatly missed his dearly-beloved son in the faith. In the latter part of this Epistle, Paul writes, “Do thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy; What were those tears? Tears of holy men and women are as precious as diamonds. Paul had noticed the tear twinkling in brother Timothy’s eye — the tear of repentance, the tear of gratitude, the tear of fervent desire. He had noticed that, and, being mindful of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee,.... This caused him to give thanks to God for it, whose gift it is and made him the more desirous of seeing one, who was a true believer, and an Israelite indeed. This is to be understood of the grace of faith, which was implanted in the heart of Timothy by the Spirit of God, and was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. There is no transmigration of souls, but there is a kind of transmigration of faith, as if the very form and shape of faith, which was in Lois and Eunice, afterwards appeared in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also. Grace does not run in the blood, but it often runs side by side with it. The “grandmother Lois” and the “mother Eunice “ had the true grace of saving faith dwelling in them, and...