2 Timothy 1:12

For the which cause I also suffer these things R.V. places -also" after -suffer" that the emphasis may belong as much to -these things" as to -suffer" according to the order of the Greek; and substitutes yet for -nevertheless," which is too emphatic for the Greek word.

am not ashamed The reference to 2 Timothy 1:8 is obvious, as -these things" are the chains and dungeon of -the Lord's prisoner." Cf. Romans 1:16.

I know whom I have believed Rather with R.V. him whom, because it is the relative not the interrogative pronoun that is used.

to keep that which I have committed unto him R.V. places in the margin the alternative sense, according to its rule when the balance of authority is nearly even, -that which he hath committed unto me"; and gives the literal Greek -my deposit." The genitive of the personal pronoun rendered -my" may be either subjective here or objective; hence the uncertainty, which the context does not clear up entirely. On the whole, looking to the speciality of the phrase and its use in 1 Timothy 6:20, and below 2 Timothy 1:14 of Timothy's guarding of the sound doctrine handed on to him, and here only besides, it seems most probable that St Paul is adopting, to describe God's commission to him, the same words in which he describes the same commission to Timothy. And by a change very characteristic of St Paul, when we might have expected the phrase to run -am persuaded that I shall be enabled to guard" it is made to run -am persuaded that he is able to guard." Cf. - yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" Galatians 2:20. The guarding, thus, is exactly the same, viz. God's, in the 14th verse, -guard through the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." Compare Romans 7:24-25 with Romans 8:9. See note on 1 Timothy 6:20, for a fuller account of the -deposit" itself, as the commission to hand on sound doctrine. If at the end of the first epistle this had become the Apostle's chief absorbing anxiety, much more is it so now, in the very hour of his departure.

against that day With a view to, in readiness for, that day; cf. Judges 6, -angels … he hath kept … unto the judgment of the great day."