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 hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."[105]
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 Isr...
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 encounter...
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 fo...
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...
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...
AN APOSTLE'S GLORY AND AN APOSTLE'S PRIVILEGE (2 Timothy 1:1-7)...
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 2:9...
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...
_For God hath not given us_ Rather, GAVE US; i.e. both St Paul and Timothy, at the time of their -setting apart" for the ministry; this gift is of special grace for special work, more particularly the...
ΔΕΙΛΊΑΣ. So all the principal manuscripts; some cursives have δουλείας from a reminiscence of Romans 8:15. See note _in loc_. 7. ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ἜΔΩΚΕΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. _For God did not give us_, i.e. [not all Christi...
CHARGE I. BE ZEALOUS; BE COURAGEOUS; STIR UP YOUR ORDINATION GRACE...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1:7 discretion. (f-20) A quiet, sound or sober mind....
FEAR] indicating a certain timidity in Timothy, like the 'Be not ashamed' of 2 Timothy 1:8. A SOUND MIND] RV 'discipline.' It means self-discipline, self-control....
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...
Exhortation to firmness in his glorious calling. 6. Stir up] as a fire that is beginning to die down. THE GIFT OF GOD] which he received at his ordination by the laying on of the hands of St. Paul and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
οὐ γὰρ ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν : The γάρ connects this statement with the exhortation preceding in such a way as to suggest that God's gift “to us” of a spirit of power is in the same order of being as the charis...
“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 th...
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...
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 believe...
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....
_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...
(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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
FEAR; timidity and cowardice, manifested in shrinking from arduous and dangerous services. POWER; energy and courage in meeting and overcoming difficulties....
PAUL REMINDS TIMOTHY OF HIS EARLY TRAINING AND ITS OBLIGATIONS....
FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND. Without further introduction the apostle broaches the matter that is filling his mind. His heart is full to...
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...
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....
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...
2 Timothy 1:7 For G1063 God G2316 has G1325 not G3756 given G1325 (G5656) us G2254 spirit G4151 fear...
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...
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...
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,_ Paul takes high ground. He is not an apostle by the will of the Church...
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: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the...
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...
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 ne...
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...
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...
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—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:6 Paul challenges Timothy to continue following in his footsteps (compare 2 Timothy 3:10)....
2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 SPIRIT. Probably the Holy Spirit. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
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 antecede...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 John 4:18; 1 Peter 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:13;...
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...
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 mot...
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF A CHRISTIAN 2 Timothy 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is a mistake to imagine that those who walk with Christ will find a level pathway without any valley or any mountain top, a path...
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...
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...