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2Tim.4:1. This...I testify before God and our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Tim.4:2. Preach the word without ceasing
and keep in your mind the testimony that I testified to you secretly, that is, inside, in your soul, always. I tell you, not where it is convenient and where it is inconvenient, but wherever you find a place for yourself, there
fearlessly, and edify, and teach with all patience.
2Tim.4:3. For the time will come when sound doctrine
many of the (supposed) sages,
and under the supposed cover of the Scriptures
Because of the beauty of words and the sonority of speech, they will fall into false fables:
2Tim.4:4. turn their ears away from the truth
because of its simplicity and wisdom.
2Tim.4:5. But be careful in everything
relating to learning, and
from persecutors. Your works are not the works of the priests of the Old Testament, but
New Testament. And be firm in
that is, in the gospel.
2 Timothy 4:6. For I am already being sacrificed,
I am not dying an ordinary death, but as a sacrifice,
- and the time for my release [from life]... has come,
- He says this because through his offering he calmed down from the persecution to which he had been subjected for many years.
great persecution and all sorrows
I labored and finished the course
death, which is the end of the stream,
among the numerous persecutions that came upon me.
2 Timothy 4:8. And after all, [I] have a crown,
not by grace alone, but such
which the Lord will reward me... on... that... day. And not only me
he will give in truth (justice),
but also to all those who loved the day of the revelation of His coming.
For although what is given to us here (on earth) is a gift of grace, what is prepared for us and is observed will be given in righteousness (justice).
2 Timothy 4:9. Try... to... come to me... soon;
because for various reasons I was abandoned by my former companions.
2 Timothy 4:10. For Demas... left me... having loved the [present] age,
that is, he fled from persecution, for which the gifts of promise were kept to him,
he is for earthly peace, from which he has no benefit.
Luke the Evangelist [is] with me... alone.
2 Timothy 4:11. Take Mark and bring him with you,
for it is useful to me, not for my service, but
2 Timothy 4:13. Felony... and books... leather,
who I was, when I had a revelation
so that I would go to preach in the countries of Macedonia (Acts 16:8),
I left it there - when you come, bring it with you.
2 Timothy 4:14. Alexander the coppersmith did a lot... evil... to me:... God will reward him according to his deeds,
which he committed against us. He was a companion of Simon (the Magus), as the Caesarean Chronograph reports.
2 Timothy 4:15. Whom you too should beware of, he says, for
thanks to the wickedness and hatred of the devil, who enters into him and strengthens him,
he strongly opposed... words... ours.
2 Timothy 4:16. At the first interrogation,
when I stood before Caesar,
None of the brothers were with me, but they all... left me
Let it not be... imputed to them
this is a sin, for although fear put them to flight, love gathered them.
2 Timothy 4:17. But the Lord... appeared to me... and strengthened me
to courageously endure the suffering and sorrow that surrounds me,
- so that through me the sermon may be established,
that is, so that all preachers of the New Testament may be strengthened through me, -
let all the pagans hear,
accepted the gospel teaching that
I am freed from the jaws of... the lion,
that is, from the hand of Caesar. After all, his first trial wanted to condemn me to death. But when he (the Apostle) gave an answer for what reason he was handed over by the Jews into the hands of the governor of the province and why he demanded the judgment of Caesar, then, he says,
2 Timothy 4:18. The Lord has delivered me from every evil deed,
how I was saved from everything that was written about me because of the accusation from the Jews, and he will bring me
which is in heaven, because I appeared and preached Him before the kings of the earth.
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