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Verse 7. _GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR_] Here is an
allusion to the giving of the law on mount Sinai. This was
communicated with such _terrible majesty_ as to engender fear in all
the Isra...
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FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR - A timorous and servile
spirit. This is said in order to encourage Timothy, who was not
improbably modest and diffident.
BUT OF POWER - Power to encounte...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. PAUL'S PERSONAL WORD TO TIMOTHY
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. Paul's affectionate words and confidence (2 Timothy 1:1)_
2. Difficulties and assurance (2 Timothy 1:6)
3. Holding the f...
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2 Timothy 1:6 to 2 Timothy 2:13. APPEAL TO TIMOTHY FOR COURAGE IN FACE
OF DIFFICULTIES.
(_a_) 2 Timothy 1:6. DIRECT APPEAL, BASED ON TIMOTHY'S ORDINATION
GIFT. The false teachers have created a situat...
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This is a letter from Paul, who was made an apostle of Christ Jesus by
the will of God, and whose apostleship was designed to make known to
all men God's promise of real life in Christ Jesus, to Timot...
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HATH. GIVEN. gave.
NOT. App-105.
THE. a.
SPIRIT. App-101.
FEAR. cowardice. Greek. _deilia._ Only here.
POWER. App-172.
LOVE. App-135.
SOUND MIND. Greek _sophroaiamoa._ Only here. Compare 1Ti 2:...
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Timothy's inheritance of Personal Faith and Ministerial Gifts a double
ground of Appeal
From what St Paul was himself follows now the first appeal to Timothy,
based on his affectionate remembrance of...
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CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...
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ΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать,
ΔΕΙΛΊΑ (G1167) трусость, робость,
недостаток смелости, малодушие, страх
(TLNT; Spicq).
ΣΩΦΡΟΝΙΣΜΌΣ (G4995) самовоспитание,
умение держать себя в рук...
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DISCOURSE: 2240
THE SPIRIT OF VITAL CHRISTIANITY
2 Timothy 1:7. _God hath not given to us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a sound mind_.
THE real character of Christianity, as i...
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GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR;— St. Paul has frequent
references in his epistles to the terror which accompanied the giving
of the law from Mount Sinai, and intimates that the Judaizing
Chr...
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PART ONE
_Exhortations 1:6-2:26_
1.
DO NOT BE ASHAMED 2 Timothy 1:6-18
a.
Timothy 2 Timothy 1:6-11
_TEXT 1:6-11_
6 For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift
of God, wh...
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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind.
FOR ... - implying that Timothy needed 'to stir up the gift of God in
him,' being constitutionally timi...
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2 Timothy had been with the apostle in Rome, whence he was probably
sent to Philippi (Php_2:19). The most loving and intimate relations
existed between them, and Paul continually refers to him as his...
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1:7 discretion. (f-20) A quiet, sound or sober mind....
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EXPRESSIONS OF AFFECTION AND EXHORTATIONS TO FAITHFULNESS
1, 2. Salutation. According to the promise of life] St. Paul declares
himself appointed an Apostle with the view of his spreading the
knowled...
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HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK
2 TIMOTHY
_IAN MACKERVOY_
ABOUT THIS LETTER
THE WRITER AND TO WHOM HE WROTE
At the end of the book of Acts, the *apostle Paul was still in pri...
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FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. — Or better, perhaps,
_the spirit of cowardice_ — that cowardice which manifests itself by
a timidity and shrinking in the daily difficulties which the Ch...
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CHAPTER 27
2 Timothy
THE CHARACTER AND CONTENTS OF THE LAST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL-THE NEMESIS
OF NEGLECTED GIFTS. - 2 Timothy 1:6
IN the Second Epistle to Timothy we have the last known words of St.
P...
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I know that your weak point is deficiency in moral courage. Be braced,
therefore, by the assurance that I am constantly thinking with
thankfulness and prayer about your genuine and inborn faith; and b...
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“STIR UP THE GIFT WHICH IS IN THEE”
2 Timothy 1:1
Lonely and facing death the Apostle fell back on the bedrock of the
will of God. If it were the divine plan that he should finish his
life-work in t...
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The second letter to Timothy was written from prison. Paul, conscious
of the evil existing in the Church, forecast the terrible days that
were coming. He was conscious also of the grave responsibility...
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TIMOTHY'S FAITH AND FAMILY HISTORY
Paul served God, as his fathers had, with a pure, or clear conscience
(Acts 23:1; Acts 24:16). The apostle's actions were always in accord
with that which he believ...
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For God hath not given us the spirit of (d) fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind.
(d) To pierce us through, and terrify us, as men whom the Lord will
destroy....
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_Of fear. [3] Of a cowardly fear, and want of courage. --- Of
sobriety. [4] Though the Protestants here translate of a sound mind,
yet they translate the same Greek word by sobriety in divers other
pl...
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(1) В¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, (2) To
Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the
Fath...
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Turning to the SECOND EPISTLE, we find that, although there is the
same grand truth of the Saviour God maintained, the state of things
had become sensibly worse, and the hour for the apostle's departu...
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_A SPIRIT OF COURAGE_
‘Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of
God, which is in thee is the putting on of mg bands. For God bath not
given us the spirit of fear; but of powe...
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7_For God hath not given to us a spirit of cowardice _It is a
confirmation of what he had said immediately before; and thus he
continues to urge Timothy to display the power of the gifts which he
had...
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The Second Epistle to Timothy has a very peculiar character. It is the
expression of his heart, who out side Palestine had, under God,
founded and built the assembly of God on earth, and it was writte...
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FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR,.... A pusillanimous,
cowardly spirit, so as to be afraid of men or devils, of what they
will say or do; and so as to be discouraged in, sink under, or be...
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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind.
Ver. 7. _The spirit of fear_] δειλειας, called elsewhere the
spirit of bondage, δουλειας, Romans 8:15. Th...
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_Wherefore_ Because I remember this; _I put thee in remembrance_
Because of my love to thee; _that thou stir up the gift of God_ That
is, every gift which the grace of God has given thee. The word
ανα...
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FEAR; timidity and cowardice, manifested in shrinking from arduous and
dangerous services.
POWER; energy and courage in meeting and overcoming difficulties....
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PAUL REMINDS TIMOTHY OF HIS EARLY TRAINING AND ITS OBLIGATIONS....
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Despite the fact of his heart being so drawn out in this epistle, Paul
writes as "an apostle," not as a servant, nor even as a brother. Does
this not stress the strongly authoritative character of tha...
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6-14 God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of
power, of courage and resolution, to meet difficulties and dangers;
the spirit of love to him, which will carry us through opposition....
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OLBGrk;
FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR: _fear_ in this place
signifieth fearfuluess, or cowardice, or poorness of spirit, in
opposition to that holy fortitude which becomes ministers; th...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV
Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me his
prisoner," he writes to Timothy.[74]
Tertullian Scorpiace
for he had said before: "For God...
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2 Timothy 1:7 For G1063 God G2316 has G1325 not G3756 given G1325
(G5656) us G2254 spirit G4151 fear G1167 but G235 power G1411 and
G2532 love G26 and G2532 mind G4995
the spirit - Acts 20:24,...
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2 Timothy 1:7. GOD HATH NOT GIVEN. Better, ‘ _did not give.'_
THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. Better, _‘cowardice._ Here, again, in the use
of so strong a word, we trace the desire of the apostle to rouse
Timot...
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A SPIRIT OF FEARFULNESS
(πνευμα δειλιας). Here πνευμα is the χαρισμα
of verse 2 Timothy 1:6, the human spirit as endowed by the Holy Spirit
(Romans 8:15). Δειλια is an old word (δειλοσ, δειδω)
and...
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2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy,
my dearly beloved son:_
There is the greatest possible affe...
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CONTENTS: Apostolic greetings and exhortations to Timothy.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy, Eunice, Phygelus,
Hermogenes, Onesiphorus.
CONCLUSION: The best of Christ's servants n...
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2 Timothy 1:1. _Paul according to the promise of life which is in
Christ Jesus._ On this promise of eternal life the whole system of
revelation is built; for this cause Paul was made an apostle, that...
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DOES NOT MAKE US TIMID. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says us
refers to The Christian Society (messianic community). See Romans 8:15
and note. POWER = courage. See Acts 4:31 and note. LOVE. Christ...
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2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:3 Enduring for the Gospel. Paul’s
thanksgiving (2 Timothy 1:3) leads to encouraging Timothy (2 Timothy
1:6; 2 Timothy 2:1). In between, he provides positive and negative...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
2 Timothy 1:6. STIR UP THE GIFT.—As the soldier draws together the
embers of his watch-fire, making the flame leap up, so St. Paul would
have this good soldier of Jes...
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EXPOSITION
2 TIMOTHY 1:1
_Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ, _A.V. and T.R.; _the life _for
_life, _A.V. The life is a little clearer than _life, _as showing that
"life" (not "promise") is the anteced...
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Ver. 7. _For God gave us not the spirit of cowardice, but of power,
and love, and correction._ By spirit here may be understood either
God's Spirit working in a certain manner in us, or our own spirit...
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Shall we turn now to second Timothy? This is the last epistle that
Paul wrote. He is again in prison in Rome. It would seem that he was
released from the first imprisonment and allowed a little more t...
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1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 John 4:18; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:13; 2
Corinthians 5:14; Acts 1:8; Acts 10:38; Acts 20:24; Acts 21:13; Acts
26:1
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Spirit of fear [π ν ε υ μ α δ ε ι λ ι α ς]. Better, of
cowardice. N. T. Comp. Romans 8:15, and see on the Spirit, Romans 8:4;
Romans 8:5.
Of power [δ υ ν α μ ε ω ς]. Found in all the Pauline Epistles...
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SEVEN BIBLE MOTHERS
2 Timothy 1:1; _2 Timothy 3:13_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We are studying a theme today which should have in it much of value to
every one of us; even the men and the young men love mo...
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And let nothing discourage thee, for God hath not given us — That
is, the spirit which God hath given us Christians, is not the spirit
of fear — Or cowardice. But of power — Banishing fear. And love
a...
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Here our apostle exhorts Timothy to an holy courage and undaunted
resolution in the execution of his office. As if he had said, "Be not
discouraged by persection: for God hath not given us, his messen...