2 Timothy
The Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to
simply as Second Timothy and often written 2 Timothy, is one
of the three Pastoral Epistles traditionally attributed to
Saint Paul, and is part of the New Testament. The
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia affirms Paul's
authorship and documents the fact that a vast majority of the
early church fathers attest to Paul's authorship of all the
pastoral epistles. Most conservative biblical scholars agree.
However, many modern biblical scholars argue that 2 Timothy
was not written by Paul but by an anonymous follower, after
Paul's death in the First Century...
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The Epistles to Timothy and Titus are called the Pastoral
Epistles, because they are principally devoted to directions
about the work of the pastor of a church. The First Epistle
was probably written from Macedonia, A.D. 65, in the
interval between St. Paul's first and second imprisonments
at Rome. The absence of any local reference but that in 1Ti
1:3 suggests Macedonia or some neighboring district. In some
MSS. and versions Laodicea is named in the inscription as
the place from which it was sent. The Second Epistle appears
to have been written A.D. 67 or 68, and in all probability
at Rome. The following are the characteristic features of
these epistles:-- (1) The ever-deepening sense in St. Paul's
heart of the divine mercy of which he was the object, as
shown in the insertion of the "mercy" in the salutations of
both epistles, and in the "obtained mercy" of 1Ti 1:13 (2)
The greater abruptness of the Second Epistle. From first to
last there is no plan, no treatment of subjects carefully
thought out. All speaks of strong overflowing emotion
memories of the past, anxieties about the future. (3) The
absence, as compared with St. Paul other epistles, of Old
Testament references. This may connect itself with the fact
just noticed, that these epistles are not argumentative,
possibly also with the request for the "books and
parchments" which had been left behind. 2Ti 4:13 (4) The
conspicuous position of the "faithful sayings" as taking the
place occupied in other epistles by the Old Testament
Scriptures. The way in which these are cited as
authoritative, the variety of subjects which they cover,
suggests the thought that in them we have specimens of the
prophecies of the apostolic Church which had most impressed
themselves on the mind of the apostle and of the disciples
generally. 1Co 14:1 ... shows how deep a reverence he was
likely to feel for spiritual utterances. In 1Ti 4:1 we have
a distinct reference to them. (5) The tendency of the
apostle's mind to dwell more on the universality of the
redemptive work of Christ, 1Ti 2:3-6; 4:10 and his strong
desire that all the teaching of his disciples should be
"sound." (6) The importance attached by him to the practical
details of administration. The gathered experience of a long
life had taught him that the life and well being of the
Church required these for its safeguards. (7) The recurrence
of doxologies, 1Ti 1:17; 6:15,16; 2Ti 4:18 as from one
living perpetually in the presence of God, to whom the
language of adoration was as his natural speech.
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was probably written a year or so after the first, and from
Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and
was sent
to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats
Timothy
to come to him before winter, and to bring Mark with
him (comp.
Phil. 2:22). He was anticipating that "the time of his
departure
was at hand" (2 Tim. 4:6), and he exhorts his "son
Timothy" to
all diligence and steadfastness, and to patience under
persecution (1:6-15), and to a faithful discharge of
all the
duties of his office (4:1-5), with all the solemnity
of one who
was about to appear before the Judge of quick and
dead.
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TIME AND PLACE OF WRITING. In Paul's prison at Rome, just
before his martyrdom. Timothy was possibly still at Ephesus,
for Priscilla and Aquila whom Paul salutes generally resided
there (2 Timothy 4:19); also Onesiphorus, who ministered to
Paul at Ephesus and therefore it is presumable resided there
(2 Timothy 1:16-18). The Hymenaeus of 2 Timothy 2:17 is
probably the Hymenaeus at Ephesus (1 Timothy 1:20); also
"Alexander the coppersmith" (2 Timothy 4:14) seems to be the
Alexander put forward by the Jews to clear themselves, not
to befriend Paul, in the riot at Ephesus (Acts 19:33-34).
Still, if Timothy was at Ephesus, why did he need to be told
that Paul had sent Tychicus to Ephesus, or that Paul had
left Trophimus, himself an Ephesian (Acts 21:29), sick at
Miletus which was only 30 miles from Ephesus?
Probably Timothy's overseership extended beyond
Ephesus to all the Pauline churches in Asia Minor; he
combined with it the office of "evangelist," or itinerant
missionary Ephesus was only his head quarters; and 2 Timothy
4:13 will accord with the theory of Ephesus or any other
place in the N.W. of Asia Minor being Timothy's place of
sojourn at the time. Paul at his first imprisonment lodged
in his own hired house, guarded by a single soldier, and
having liberty to receive all comers; but now he was so
closely confined that Onesiphorus with difficulty found him;
he was chained, forsaken by friends, and had narrowly
escaped execution by the Roman emperor. The access however
of Onesiphorus, Linus, Pudens, and Claudia to him proves he
was not in the Mamertine or Tullianum prison, with Peter, as
tradition represents; but under military custody, of a
severer kind than at his first imprisonment (2 Timothy 1:16-
18; 2 Timothy 2:9; 2 Timothy 4:6-8; 2 Timothy 4:16-17). (See
PETER.) He was probably arraigned before the "rulers"
(Clemens Rom., 1 Ep. Corinth. 5, epi ton heegoumenon), i.e.
Helius the city prefect, on a double charge:
(1) of having conspired with the Christians, as
Nero's partisans alleged, to set fire to Rome, A.D. 64; that
event took place the year after his liberation from the
first imprisonment, A.D. 63; some Christians were crucified,
some arrayed in wild beasts' skins, and hunted to death by
dogs, wrapped in pitch robes some were set on fire by night
to illuminate the Vatican circus and Nero's gardens while
that monster played the charioteer. (See PAUL.) But now
three years had elapsed; and Paul as a Roman citizen was
treated with greater respect for legal forms, and was
acquitted on the...
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