ἢ κέκρικα ᾿ παραχειμάσαι.
h Acts iii. 13, xx. 16, xxv. 25, xxvii. 1, 1 Cor. 11. 2, Vii. 37, 2 Cor. ii. 1.
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ἆ See1 Tim: iv. 7.
e Deut. XXXIi. 20, etc., here only, N.T
13. f Hereonly, not LXX.
g See2Tim.
iActs xxvii.
cannot deny that his views are antagon- istic to those which he once accepted as true; he is condemned by his former, and, as St. Paul would say, his more enlightened self.
Vv. 12-14. Come to me, as soon as you can be spared. Forward Zenas and Apollos. Let our friends in Crete re- member that fruitfulness in good works is the one thing needful for them.
Ver. 12. ὅταν πέμψω πρός σε: It is natural to suppose that Artemas or Tychicus would take the place of Titus as apostolic legate in Crete. This tem- porary exercise of apostolic superintend- ence marks a stage in the development of monarchical local episcopacy in the later sense.
᾿Αρτεμᾶν: The name is “Greek, formed from "Αρτεμις perhaps by con- traction from Artemidorus, a name com- mon in Asia Minor” (W. Lock, art. in Hastings’ D. B.).
Τυχικόν : See note on 2 Tim. iv. 12.
Νικόπολιν: The subscription in the later MSS. at the end of the epistle, ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Νικοπόλεως τῆςΜακεδονίας, follows the Greek commentators (Chrys., Theod., etc.), in identifying this Nico- polis with that in Thrace, on the Nestus ; but makes a stupid mistake in not per- ceiving that ἐκεῖ proves that St. Paul was not at Nicopolis when the letter was written. If we suppose that the situation of St. Paul, when writing 2 Tim., must have been somewhere between Dalmatia, Thessalonica, Corinth, Miletus, Ephesus and Troas, then Nicopolis ad Nestum would meet the needs of the case. But the more important Nicopolis in Epirus has found more favour with modern scholars (see art. by W. M. Ramsay in Hastings’ D.B.).
παραχειμάσαι : It is possible that the winter is that mentioned in 2 Tim. iv. 21. The apostle was not always per- mitted to exercise the gift of prophecy, in the sense of being able to foretell future events. From this point of view, There I have determined to winter may be com- pared with the earlier I know that ye all ... shall see my face no more (Acts xx. 25).
Ver. 13. νοµικόν: In the absence of
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