i7istruct ; comp. iv. 2. — JJ;>jpr/<r//,£i/o£? thoroughly fitted or perfected [furnished]) by Scripture. He ought s^aprffaQai, to fo tho roughly perfected., then he will be apriog, perfect. To become and to fo differ.
1. Ovv, therefore) This is deduced from the whole of ch. iii. — lyw, /) whom thou hast known, ch. iii. 14. — £wi/rag xa/ vsxpoi>$, £/*6 living and the dead) Paul's death was at hand, while Timothy was to survive. — Kara) then when He shall appear ; Kara refers to time, Heb. i. 10 [Kar' dp^dg]. — simpdveiav) ewtpdveia xai SafftXsia is a Hendiadys : snpdvsia is the revelation and rise of the kingdom, 1 Tim. vi. 14, 15.
2. 'Ecr/0y?j$/) &6 instant, be urgent. — svxajpus, axa/pwg) Pricseus understands the word as it were proverbially, for assiduously, or «£ ewry time; and brings in support of his view the examples which follow : — Nicetus Choniates : <ra/<5aywy£ ifj,(3piQeT soixuc, evxatpus dxafpuc. aKSKXqrr&Vj (t like a severe schoolmaster, he was always beating, in and out of season." Such is that expression of the Tragic writer Seneca : Incipe quicquid potes, Medea, quic- quid non potes, " Medea, attempt whatsoever thou canst do and whatsoever thou canst not do ;" i.e. anything whatever. Of Plautus : qui comedit quod fuit, quod non fuit, " one who eats up what there was, what there was not ;" i.e. who devours every thing. Of Terence : cum milite isto prcesens absens ut sies, "that whether present or absent, thou mayest be with that soldier." Of Catullus : Hoc facias, sive id non pote, sive potest, " Do this, whether it be impossible or possible ;" i.e. it must be done. Of Julian : stfop&vsro IT/ rag r&v <pi\uv o/'x/ag axXyroi, JtwtXij/ifyog, diaXXdffffuv rovg olxziordrov/; dX>^Ao/j, il he went to the houses of his friends, whether invited or not, reconciling those most nearly related to one another." Of Aristophanes : 3/xa/ws xa/ dd/xwg, "justly and unjustly," where the Scholia say, " for in every way? Of Virgil : digna, indigna pati, " to suffer things, worthy and unworthy ;" where Servius says, it i* a proverbial