steps. The imitation would embrace, in effect, much of what was described in vv. ο ff. i
Ver. 17. ‘‘ For this reason”’—v?z., to
help you to imitate me as your father— “I sent to you Timothy, who is a be- loved child of mine, and faithful in the Lord”. Timothy had left P. before this letter was written, having been sent for- ward along with Erastus (possibly a Cor., Rom. xvi. 23) to Macedonia (Acts xix. 22), but with instructions, as it now appears, to go forward to Cor.; respecting his:
15-21,
ἐκκλησία "διδάσκω.
‘ ἐφυσιώθησάν ὄτινες: 19. ἐλεύσομαι δὲ ταχέως πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ᾿ ἐὰν ὁ ἡ Κύριος ' θελήσῃ, καὶ ᾿γνώσομαι οὐ τὸν "λόγον τῶν ' πεφυσιωµένων ἀλλὰ τὴν δύναμιν: 20. οὐ γὰρ ἐν "λόγῳ ἡ ™ βασιλεία τοῦ ™ Θεοῦ ἀλλ᾽ | ἐν "! δύναµει. 21. τί θέλετε; 3 ἐν " ῥάβδω ἔλθω πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ή
3 > , ο , , P / 1 z ΕΝ αγαπη πνευµατι τε πραοτητος η
f See ver. 6 above. Pastt.; 2 Pet. ili. 9, 16; Jude 4.
18. ὡς μὴ ἐρχομένου δέ µου πρὸς ὑμᾶς
δος
ο Of Chris- tian doc- trine, Rom. xfi. 7; eight times be- sides in P.; Heb. v.12; 1 Ίου, 27 Gospp. and Acts, passim.
g In this sense, 2 Cor. iii. 1, x. 2; Gal. i. 7, ii. 12; 1 Tim. i. 6; 7 times in h James iv. 15; Sir. xxxix. 6. vii. 7; Gal. ii.g; Phil. it. 22, ili. το; 1 Th. iii. 5; 1 Jo. iii. 16; Rev. ii. 23, εἰς, in similar contrasts, 2 Cor. x. 11; Rom. xv. 18; Col. iii. 17; 1 John iii. 18.
i 2 Cor. ii. 9, xiii.6; Rom. Κι Thess. i. 5; 1 See i, 18; 10 times
besides inlike use in P. For εν ὄυναμει, xv. 43; 2 Cor. vi. 7; Rom. i. 4, xv. 13, 19; Col. i. 11, 20;
2 Th. i. 11, ii. 9; Mk ix. 1, etc.
Isa. x. 24. etc.
lapautntos, ABC 17.
visit, see notes to xvi. 10 f. The Cor. had heard already (through Erastus ?) of Timothy’s coming; P. does not announce the fact, he explains it: ‘‘ This is why I have sent T. to you”; to the τέκνα ἀγαπητά (14) P. sends a τέκνον ἀγαπητόν (see Phil. ii. 19-22), adding καὶ πιστὸν ἐν Κυρ., since it was a trusty agent, one ‘faithful in the Lord’’—in the sphere of Christian duty—-that the commission required. For ἐν Κυρίῳ, see parls., esp. Eph. vi. 21, Col. iv. 7; πιστὸς τῷ Κυρίῳ (Acts xvi. 15) denotes a right relation- ship to Christ, πιστὸς ἐν Κυρίῳ in- cludes responsibility for others.—‘* Who will remind you of my ways, that are in Christ” (τὰς ὁδούς µου τὰς ἐν Χριστῷ) ; the adjunct is made a definition by the repeated art. ἀναμιμνήσκω with double acc., like ὑπομιμν. in John xiv. 26, com- bines our remind (a person) and recall (a thing). Paul’s “ways” had been familiar in Cor, (cf. Acts xx. 31-35; also 2 Cor. i. 12 ff.), but seemed forgotten ; the παιδαγωγοὶ had crowded out of mind the πατήρ. He means by ὁδοί µου habits of life to be copied (16)—the ἀγωγὴ of 2 Tim. iii. ro f—not doctrines to be learnt; see further ix. 19-27, x. 33-xi.
I, 2 Cor, vi. 4-10, x. 1. “For ev Χριστῷ, see note on ἐν X. Ἰ., i. 2. In Paul’s
gentler qualities Tim. would strongly recall him to the Cor., by conduct even more than words.—‘ According as’’ (not how) ‘‘I teach”—in accordance with my teaching. Paul’s ways and teaching are not the same thing; but the former are regulated by the latter; they will find the same consistency in Tim. ‘(As I teach) everywhere, in every Church:” the ‘‘ ways” Ῥ. and Tim. observe, and to which the Cor. must be recalled, are
τη vi. 9 f., xv. 50; Rom. xiv. 17; Gal. v.21; Eph. v.5; Col. iv. it; 1 Th. ii. 12; 2 Th. i. 5; Rev. xii. 10; Mark, Luke, Acts, passim.