2 Timothy 1:10

is now made manifest but manifested now; the opposition thus put between the -given" and the -manifested" implies that the gift had been, in the phrase of the other parallel passage, Romans 16:25, - kept in silencethrough times eternal." Compare 1 Timothy 3:16, -who in flesh was manifested."

by the appearing The one use of the substantive -epiphany" for the Incarnation, and so the authority for our use of it in the Church's season of Epiphany. See notes on 1 Timothy 6:14 and Titus 2:13. The verb, with this reference, occurs again Titus 2:11; Titus 3:4.

our Saviour Jesus Christ Again, with the best mss., Christ Jesus; the title now especially frequent, see note 1 Timothy 1:1.

who hath abolished death More exactly, abolishing death, as he did, and bringing into light instead life and immortality. The verb for -abolish," lit. -to make useless, powerless," is used here of the Incarnation; in Hebrews 2:14, of the Atonement; in 1 Corinthians 15:26, of the Second Advent, as effecting this victory; at each stage the victory is assured. To us the Incarnation and the Atonement are extended through union with Christ in Holy Baptism. Compare Dr H. Macmillan, Two Worlds are Ours, p. 22. - Naturally, we are the creatures of days and months and years that vanish, regulated by sun and moon and stars that will perish. But, born anew in Christ, we enter into a sphere where time has no existence, where one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; we lay hold on eternal life."

hath brought … to light Vulg., Th. Mops., -illuminavit," i.e. -shed over them a full mid-day light." The use of the corresponding substantive 1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 4:6, shews the force best, the illuminating power of the Gospel of the glory of Christ. -Life," -the life that is truly life," 1 Timothy 6:19, the spiritual life, which is -immortality;" see notes on 1Ti 6:12; 1 Timothy 6:19; 1 Timothy 4:8. The Ember hymn well expresses the present glory of this -life" thus illuminated, -our glory meets us ere we die."

through the gospel Added to the second half of the clause, as coming back to the thought of 2 Timothy 1:8, where -the gospel" personified represents the saving work of the Lord and the suffering ministry of St Paul as here.