2 Timothy 1:18

The Lord grant unto him thathe may find mercy of the Lord in that day The repetition of -the Lord" arises apparently from the use of two clauses together which had become customary separate phrases in intercessory prayer. In its first use, as in 2 Timothy 1:16, with the article, understand -our Lord" as in the Epistles generally, cf Winer, Pt. iii. § 19 a; and in its second use -God the Father" (Bp Ellicott). For a somewhat similar English use cf. Coll. for 4 S. in Advent -O Lord, raise up (we pray thee) thy power and come among us … through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord." The sentence should be regarded, as by Revisers, as a parenthetic prayer forced from him as he recalls the love that persevered to find him -in the lowest pit"; though he is chiefly bent on completing the tale of benefits for Timothy's good; -go thou" he would imply -and do likewise."

and in how manythings he ministeredunto me] Omit with the best mss. -unto me"; the statement is general of ministry to the Church, but the context gives a special suggestion of ministry to St Paul in his -overseer's" office there. The Greek words would well bear rendering how fully he played the deacon; but anyhow the work is more prominent than the office, that of attending to bodily needs; as St Paul uses the word diakoneinof himself when carrying the alms to Jerusalem, Romans 15:25 -now I say I go unto Jerusalem ministering unto the saints," and of Onesimus with himself at Rome -whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel." Philemon 1:13.

thou knowest very well Lit. -better" i.e. than that I should need to dwell upon it.