beasts without a figure. / was delivered, he says, not He de livered me, because, that the Lord had done it, was not out wardly apparent.
18. K«/, and) Hope draws its conclusions from the past to the future. — pvfcrui /us, shall deliver me) Paul understands (views) all things on the side of salvation. Does he live 1 He has been delivered. Shall he be beheaded ? He will be delivered ; the Lord being his deliverer. — spyov wovqpov) The antithesis is aurou, His. — xai, and) A sweet conjunction. He is the Lord, and the Deliverer, 1 Thess. i. 10 ; and Saviour, Phil. iii. 20. He takes away evil, He confers good things. — cuaei, will preserve) This word was in Paul's mind from the Psalm quoted above. — pao/faiav, kingdom) better tkan that of Nero. — f> q M%a, to whom be the glory) The very hope produces a doxology : how much greater will be the doxology, which the actual enjoyment will produce !
20. "Epaffrog — Tpopiftov, Erastus — Trophimus) The reason why these do not send salutations, is by implication indicated. — efteivsv, remained) while I was prosecuting my journey. The second imprisonment of Paul was not long ; for he wrote these things a short time after his journey, a little before his death. — sv KopivQu, at Corinth) his native country, Rom. xvi. 23. — !lv MiXqrtft, at Miletus) Miletus was near Ephesus. Whether Timothy knew of the sickness of Trophimus or wras ignorant of it, still Paul might have mentioned it. And perhaps Trophimus accompanied Timothy afterwards to Rome. The Scholiast on this passage in Pricseus says : " Trophimus, Aristarchus, and Pudens, after they had suffered severely with the apostle in the persecutions, were at last beheaded along with him."
21. ttpb -fczipuvos, before winter) In former times, during the actual winter, there was almost no sailing ; and the martyrdom of Paul wras at hand. — iXQsTv, to come) He is invited by the men tion of Eubulus, etc., who were with Paul, and were notwithstand ing alive [therefore Timothy need not be afraid of his life in coming]. — xa/ Aivog, and Linus) He is put third in order ; he was not yet a bishop.
22. Me0' vpuv) with you, ver. 19.
j/, I left) Therefore Paul had returned from Asia to Rome not very long before. — V. g.