The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Timothy — Section 57

the l,Btin prenn1a, the thick overcoat or Ephe@11e or flt Rome? Bengel •ngx~•I• clolrn. Only hero in the New TestFtment. Rr,mo,and wilh g,·ent. prnhBhilily. Perhapa Some think it wns the bBg in which the he did him Pvil hy •tirring up the ,Jews al books and parchments were packed. The Hnmo Againat the apostle at the time ol parohments ( ,-/u µ,1,~p&.va, ). This, again, is "his first defence;" or by ~ivi11g adver•e a Latin word. It occurs only here in the testimony before the Roman tribunal, New Testament. 'fhey would probably be possibly accnsing him of being seditious. for the apostle to write his Epistles on. and bringing up the riot at Ephesus as a Or they may have been valuable mBnuscripta proof of 1t; or in some other way, of which of some kind. In ver. 20 we learn that St. the memory has perished. Will render. Pa11l hnd latelv beeu nt MiletUB; and in The R.T. bas the future, airoliw.,. .. for the I Tim. i. S that he was then going to opta.tive a1ro6-!11, "a. late a.nrl incorrect form Macedonia. Troas would be on his way for a.-01iol11" ( l•:11 icntt, in loe.). to Mncedonia, Greece, and Rome (Acts xvi. Ver.15.-Withst,,odforhathwithstood,A.V. !I, 9, 11), ns it wo.s on the return journey Of whom be thou we.re (;v <fiu1'a1T1Tou). from Macedonia to Miletua (Acts xx. 5, 15). This is the proper construction in classical It shoul<I further be observed that the Greek, the accusative of the person or thing, journey lwre inrlicnted is the same e.s that after q,u/l.a1T1Toµa,. But it is only found in refen-ed to in l Tim. i. S. which l"Onfirms Acts xxi. 25. In Luke xii. 15 the equally the in,-vilal"e inlerence from this chapter correct phrase, .Z-u.\&.a-rrea-81: &.?Tl.l T-ijs 1rAeovE· that St. Paul, 011 his way t.o Rome from {i,n, is used. The inference from this cau- Miletus. whither he had come from Crete tion to Timothy is tl,at Alexander had left (Titus i. 5), pn~9c1l through 'frnCLs, l\face- Rome and returned to his native Ephesus. donia. and Corinth (vcr. 20). leaving The Jews were always on the move. He Timothy at Ephesus. (See Introduction.) greatly withstood our words (civ,-fo,-11). For Ver. H.-Will render to him for reward an exactly similar use, see ActH xiii. 8, where him, A.V. and T.R. Alexander; appnrently Elymas "withstood·• Paul and Barnabas; an Eph,·sian, as appears by the worJs, •• of and eh. iii. 8. where Jannes and Ja.mbres who111 be thou ware also." It seems "withstood" Moses. In this CB.de we may prnbable, though it is necessarily uncertain, be sure that Paul, in pleadiug for his life, did that this Alexander is the same person ns not omit to preach the gospel to his Gentile that mentione,l iu 1 Tim. i. 20 as "a a.n<licnca. Alexander tried to refnte his blasphemer," "hich agrees exactly wilh words, not without effect. The apostle says what is here sa.i,I of him, "he greatly with- "our words" (not "my words"), perhaps to stood our words" ( cump. Acts xiii. 45, associate with himself those other Cl,ris- "contradicted the things which were spoken tians who were with him. It certainly by Paul, and blasphemed"). He may or cannot mean "yours and mine," as Timothy may not be the ea.me as the Alexander was not. with him when the " words" were named in Acts xix. 33. Supposing the spoken. Alexander of l Tim. i. 20 and this place to be Ver. 16.-Defence for answer, A.V.; no one the same, the points of resemblauce with the took my part for no man stood with me, A.V.; Alexnnder of Acts xix. 33 are that both all fur all men, A.V.; may it 11ot for I pray resided at Ephesus, thnt both seem to have God it may not, A.V.; account fur charge, been Christians (see note on 1 Tim. i. 20), A.V. Defence (lr..-01'0-y,~). "The technical and both probably Jews, inasmuch as l word in classical Greek for a defence iu Tim. i. relates entirely to Jewish heresies a.n8wer to an 11ccusntion ; " as Acts xxii. l (ven 4, 7, 8), and Acts xix. 33 expressly (where see note for further illustration), lind states that he was a. Jew. The ooppersmith Phil i. 7. Took mv pa.rt; .-apq,ve-ra R.T., (6 XaA1<eb,; only here in the New Testa- fnr uvµ.-ap•-y•v•rn T R., which ocours elae- ment); properly, a coppe,•smith, hut used where in the New Test1\ment only in Luke generally of any smith-sih·ersmitl,, or gold- xxiii. 48, in a somewhat different sense. smith, or blacksmith. Did me much evil The simple .-apa-yivoµa, is very common in (1roM& µ01 1<a.K<i lv,o,i{a.To). This is a tl,e New Testament, but nowhere in the purely Hellenistic idiom, and is found in technical sense in which it is used here. In the LXX. of Gen. i. 15, 17; Song of the Three classical Greek b,,th forms are common in Children, 19; 2 Mace. xiii. 9. In classical the sense of "coming to aid," "standing by Greek the verb ivoEiKvvµa,, in the n,iddle any one," "assisting." Here it represe11 ts voice, "to display," can only be followed by the Latin amste-re or ade88e in its teclmic,,I a subjective quality, as "good will,"'" virtue," sense of " standing by " an accused person •• lo,1 "-suffering," an "opinion," and the like as friend or a~sista.nl, to aid and abet them (see Alford, in loo.). And su it is used in in tlidr defence. Powerful men somttimes 1 Tim. i. 16; Titus ii. 10; iii. 2. The brought such a multitude of 1\ssislants as to question naturally arises-When and where overawe the ma.gistratc-, as Orgetorix the did Alexander thus injure St. Paul ?-at Helvetian, when suuunoned to trial, ap1,eared  62 THE SECOND EPISTLE 'l'O TlMU'l'llY. [OH, IV. 1-22.