The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Timothy — Section 56

I• thought to be a shortened form of nemar- Peter e.t De.bylon. The expression, "take" eh,,,. If 80, we have a slig-ht ndditinn,,I (&va>.allw>), sc<'ms to imply thnt Timothv indiPRtiou of his being a 'l'lwssnloniRn, us was to pick him up on the way, as the word eompounde with arch.os or arches would is nsed in Acts xx. 13, 14; and, though lees seem to hn\"e bcc-n cnmmon in Thessalonira cc·, t1Linly, in Acts xxiii. 31. He is useful to (oompRre A,·isturch"" Rnd ..-0A1-rcl.px11•, Acts me, etc. ( ,~xp770-Tos); ns eh. ii. 21 (where s.vii. 6, 8). Cresoena (Kpi;o-K11>): 011ly men- sec note). This testimony to Mark's miuis- tioned here. It is R Latin name, like no6611s, tcr:ILl usefulness, at n time when his faith- Pudem, in \"C'r. ~ I. There wns a rynio fuliwss and coure.ge would be put to a severe pl1ilosopher of tl 118 name in the second test, is very se.tbfoctory. P'or ministering century, a great enrmy of the Clu-istians. (,l, 6,a1eovlav). It may be doubted whether The tradition (' Apost. Constit.,' vii. 46) i,a1eov(.., 1,ere means "the ministry,'' as in that he preache,I the gospel in Galatia is the A. Y. and 1 Tim. i. 12, or, as in the probably derived from this p.1ssage. Titus, R.V., more generally "for ministering,'' i.e. et.c. The IBSt mention of Titus, not reckon- for artiug e.s an assistant to me in my ing the Epistle to Titus, is that in 2 Cor. apostolic labours. The words, "to me," xii. IS, from whioh it appears that St. Pe.ul favour tho latter rendering. The sense had ec>nt him to Corinth just before his owu would thc>n be the so.me as that of the verb last ,·isit to that city. How the interval in Acts xix. 22, where we read thnt Timothy we.a filh-d up, and where Tilus passed the and Erastus "ministerl'<l unto him," i.e. time, we know not. He is not once named to St. Panl, m,d that of /nr77pfr77s applied to in the A<"ts of the Apostles, nor in any of Mark in Acts xiii. 5. St. Paul's Epistles written during his first Ver. 12.-But for and, A.V.; ,ent for ha.,e imprisonment. But we gather from Titus ,ent, A. V. Tychious was with St. Paul i. 5 that he accompanied St. Paul to Crete, when he wrote the Epistle to the Colossians presumably after tbe apostle's return from (Cul. iv. 7), as w11s also Timothy (Col. i. 1). Spain ; the.t he was left I hne for e. time to T,.e pr~sence of Luke, Timothy, Tyel,icue, organize the Church; that later hejoined the l\Tark, with Pttul now, RB then, is remark- apostle at Ni()()polis (Titus iii. 12),and,douht- al,le (see ver. 10, note). I sent to Ephesus. 'ess by St. Paul's desire, went to Dalmatia, Th<·oduret (quoted by Alford, • Pruleg. to ,u, mentioned in this tenth vnse. And here 2 Tim.,' eh. ix. sect. I) says, "It is plaiu our knowledge of him ends. Tradition from this thnt St. Timothy was not e.t this pretty consistently m::i.kce him Bishop of time living at Ephesus, but somewhere else." Gortyna, in Crete, where are the ruins of a And that certe.inly is the nature.I inference very ancient church dedicated to St. Titus, at first sight. But Bishop Ellicott suggests in which senice is occasionally performed the possibility of 'l'ychicu~ being the bearer by priests from the neighbourhood (Dean of the First Epistle to Timothy, written not Howson, in • Diet. of Bible;' art. "Titus"). very long bvfure, and this being merely an Ver. Il.-Us~ful for profitalile, A.V.; allusion to that well-known fact. Another minutering for the mini,try, A.V. Luke j and more probable idea is that he was the probably a shortened form of Lucanm. bearer of this Epistle, that the objeot of his Luke was with St. Paul in his voyage to mission, like that of Artemas (Titus iii. 12), Rome ( Acts xx vii. 1 ; xx viii I l, W), and was to take Timothy's place at. Ephesus when he wrote the Epistles to the Cokssiane during 'fimothy's absenoe e.t Rmue, e.ud and Philemon (Col iv. H; Philem.. 4), that be is thu~ mentioned in the EJJistle in having doubtless composed the Acts of the order to commeud him to the reverent .~postles during St. Paul's two years' im- regard of the Ephesian Church (Words- prisonment (Acts xx.-iii. 30). How he spent worth). It is argued againot this that his time between that date and the mention Tp&, .,., would have been the more natural of him here as still with St. Paul, we have expression after the analogy of Col. iv. 7 no knowledge. But it looks a., if he may ant.I Titus iii. 12. But this objection would have br,en in close personal e.tte11dan<"e upon be removc-<l if we suppose that the· Epistle him e.ll the time. If he had been permitted was sent by another hand, e.nd thnt it was t.o write a snpJJlement to the Acts, perhaps very possible that Timothy might have the repeated " we" would have shown this. started for Rowe b, fore Tychicue could Take Mark. Mark he.d apparently been arrive at Ephesus. He might have orders recently reconciled to St. l'aul when he to visit Corinth or Macedonia on his way. wrote Col iv. I 0, und was with him when (For the e.rgnm,.nts for and against Timothy he wrote Philem. 21. We know nothing Lcing at Ephe.,us at this time, see Alford'& more of him till we learn from this passage • Proh-g.,' as above.) that he we.e with or uear to Timothy, and Ver. 13.-Bring ·when thou oomest for when likely to accompany him to Rome in his tAou c.omest bring with thee, A. V. ; upecially lut ,·1sit $o St. I', ul. He is mentioned for but e1pe.cw.lly, A.V. The oloke (Tb,, lgain in l Pet. , . la, u being with St. f•A.Onw, more pro1-wrly written t11aw&ll.11•): OH, IV. 1-22.] THE SI~UOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. 61