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The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Timothy
Arthur Charles Hervey [1808-1894] · 71,815 words · 73 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Timothy — Section 61
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1, 2.-..d solemn charge to Timothy to make full proof of hie ministry. The prospect of his approaching death led the apostle to address his young disciple with deep and earnest feeling. I. THE SOLEMN ADJURATION. <'I charge thee in the sight of God,and of Christ Jesus, who shall judg…
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Vere. 3, 4.-1'he waywardness and restiveness of so-called Chridiau afresh incentive to fidelity in ministers. This is an argument frum the future to tell upon present duty. I. 'l'HE BEASON OF THE APOSTASY. " For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrinP," 1. The gospel-doctrine is sound, because …
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I have finished the course, I have kept the faith." 1. The good.fight ended. (1) Every Christian la II soldier. (2) He baa to fight 11gain1t the threefold enmity of the world, the flesh, and the devil (3) He overcomes through faith e.s hia sole weapon (1 John v. 4, 6). (4) There la II limit to the duration of the fight…
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Vel"I!. 16-18.-The apostle'8 trial, before N,:ro, with its memorable incidents. I. Il1s DESERTION BY MAN. "At my first defence no one took my part, but all forsook me; may it not be laid to their account." 1. The apostle had to make his defence before the emperor. There is no record of the nature of the charge. It was …
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revealed the L11w of God Rgllinst evil. He is to remember the.t the Christ he preaches is the Son of m110 who is come, "not to condemn the world, but the.t the world through him might be s11ved." 1. Long-suffering is to ln, the spirit of hia method, Remembering th11t hum11nity is fr11il e.nd fa.lien, the preacher mu…
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is no tone of finality, however, about hie language In the strictest sense. The end was only a post which he had to pass, not a grave in which he had to aleep. For to him to live was Christ, and to die waa gain.-W. M. S. Ver. 8,-TIM, grwl reward. "Henceforth there ls laid up for me a crown ol righteousness." This is t…
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",~th God. "I charge thee in the sigh~ of God, and or Jesus Christ." Unseen by 11mothy, they were really present as Witnesses of the charge now to be laid on him. The first Witness, who is the First Person of the Godhead, is simply designated God. It is the highest, most comprehensive, of names. With God is 68sociat…
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teachers." 'l'hey have a constant uneasy feeling which seeks to be gratified with new teachers, both many and indiscriminate. 3. Tl,e abandonment of those who have itching ears lo myths. "And will turn away their ears from the truth, and tum aside unto fables." '!'heir duty is to tum their ea.re to the truth, but, as …
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(}/Jiulng of laia faith/11.lneaa. "I have finished the course." 'l'he language is taken ~pecially from the racecourse. At one point we find him nobly anxious to finish his course (A~ts n. 24). At ano_th~-~ point we fin_d him ~onscious. of the space that lay between him and the ~oal (Phil. m.). Here he 1s consc1ons o…
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lovingly ministering lo his sufferings. The conduct of Delll88 w1111 daatardly and cruel, calculated to destroy his influence as a Christian teacher. We are not warranted in saying that it excluded after-penitence and wrecked his destiny. It ha■ been his earthly destiny to be asBOciated with a black act done to one of …
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l"hri~tiRnity, when on the occasion, we m11y supposr, of the first defence, he ma,le 'n1unous statements l\'.:!Rinst t.he great champion of Christianity. If he still professed to ~ _a friend of Christianity at a distance from Rome, he was to be regarded with SiLSplClOn. III. PAUL. l. Fi,·~t defenoe. "At my first de…
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proclnmation harl reached itR climax, anrl the last or the Gentiles had hearrl, 3. Hi 8 de.,cripti<m of the reBult of the trial. "And I was delivered out of the mouth or the lion." The nncient opinion, that the lion here was Nero, may be taken as substantially correct. W~ are not to understand that Paul had become per…
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TIIKlnl A W1tn1ing &gninst Contentious Que1- PAO& TRR\111 Corruption Wlthla ..... 80 tiouin~ 82 Grievous Times ••• 60 The Importanoo of l\linisters culti- vating a Peaooful and Forbearing CHAPTER IV. Spirit ... 82 Culture of Strength 83 The Last Charge ... 68 Fitness for i;;c-r\'ioe 83 "Orpah kissed her l\lother…
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