somewhat covertly, he at length, in the epilogue of the epistle, states openly, ver. 21. Timothy was both about to be a comfort to Paul the martyr, and about to be strengthened by him, and afterwards was about to carry on the work of the Gospel, perhaps, for some little time at Rome. He is reported to have become a martyr at Ephesus.
10. ] E/$ ®i<tffa,\QViHV)v) The Scholiast M.S. in the Medic. Library, xai SKI? (at Thessalonica) hpevs e/duhuv yevopevosj " and (Demas) became there (at Thessalonica) an idolatrous priest ;" of ivhich I have read nowhere else: Pricseus. — TaXar/av, Galatia) This read ing seems to have crept in here owing to the rhythm it forms to AaX/xar/av. Adequate authorities have ra?.X/ai/;2 and some who retain raXar/av, refer it to Western or European Galatia, i.e. Gaul. See Pregizeri Suevia Sacra, page 499, seq. ex P. de Marca. — Tiros, Titus) He therefore departed from Crete, after the affairs of the churches were " set in order" there, Tit. i. 5. These persons had either attended or visited Paul.
11. AGMUS, Luke) Luke' has not brought down the history of the Acts of the Apostles to this period. — ^ovoc, alone) He is speaking of his companions ; for he had many other friends pre sent : ver. 21. — sv^p^cros, profitable) more than formerly, Acts xiii. 13, xv. 38 : comp. Philem. 11. Demas apostatizes: Mark recovers himself: but he (viz. Mark), who had gone away in the case of an easier undertaking, ought now to be present in a time of more serious difficulties.
12. Tvjfixbv, Tychicus) whom Timothy might set over the Church [in his own absence when going to Paul] ; but Paul leaves this to himself [without even suggesting that he should do so] : comp. Tit. iii. 12.
13. Tov pa/XG«jv, the cloak) Some take it for a book-case ; but it would not be called a case apart from the books. — a^fX/crov, / left) The cloak, perhaps, when they first laid violent hands on Paul, might have been taken from him at Rome, if he had brought it with him. Now when Timothy is desired to bring
1 r/c*P>for) Paul is almost left alone. — V. g.
2 Hence the margin of the 2d Ed. raises the reading Ya.'h'hiav, formerly marked e, to y, and the Germ. Vers. has entirely adopted it. — E. B.
AD(A)G/# Vulg., Iren., and Rec. Text, read r*A*T/«j/. C is the only very old MS. which supports YaKhiotv : so Epiphanius and Jerome. — ED.