2 Timothy 2:14

Of thesethings putthem in remembrance See note on Titus 3:1 for this verb, and on 2 Timothy 1:5 for its noun.

chargingthem before the Lord Or in the sight of. The ms. authority for -God" instead of -the Lord" is insufficient to justify the change.

The verb to -charge" is properly -to bear solemn witness," the preposition giving intensity; hence the two meanings to -preach" and to -charge." St Paul uses it in the latter sense three times with -in the sight of" in these Epistles, 1 Timothy 5:21; 2 Timothy 4:1 and here; and in 1 Thessalonians 4:6 in the former. It occurs eight times in the Acts, and in Luke 16:28, where the construction is the same as here, and where we may equally well render -that he may charge them not to come also themselves into this place of torment."

thatthey strive not about words The infinitive; the ms. authority is now known to be against the imperative which was the reading of the Vulgate -Noli contendere verbis." The original is one word, occurring only here; its noun only in 1 Timothy 6:4, from which our own -logomachy" has come.

to no profit Lit. -a course useful for nothing," a neuter accusative in apposition to the sentence, somewhat as in 1 Timothy 2:6 -the testimony to be borne."

but to the subverting of the hearers Omit -but"; this clause expresses the result of the word wrangling, viz. subversion, lit. catastrophe; a turning upside down of all right reason and sound morality. The word only occurs besides in 2 Peter 2:6 -condemned them (Sodom and Gomorrah) with an overthrow."