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2 Timothy 1:15

2 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 2 Timothy 1:15 Asia was the Roman province in which Ephesus, Timothy’s current place of service, was located. all... turned away from me. Key people who could have supported Paul failed to do so. It seemed as if “all” had deserted him (compare 2 Timothy 4:16). There is no further information about Phygelus and Hermogenes. These details of Paul’s situation help explain why Timothy, the faithful one, was such a source of joy for Paul (see 2 Timothy 1:3).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 15. _ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA_] It seems as if the apostle must refer to the Asiatic Christians which were then at Rome, or had been lately there. Finding the apostle in disgrace, and thinking...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THIS THOU KNOWEST, THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA BE TURNED AWAY FROM ME - That is, in that part of Asia Minor of which Ephesus was the capital. The name Asia was often given particularly to that par...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    (_c_) 2 Timothy 1:15. A PERSONAL APPEAL._ The apostle's earlier disappointments_ form the third ground of appeal. All his Asian friends perhaps by withholding help in his captivity had proved disloyal...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    AN APOSTLE'S GLORY AND AN APOSTLE'S PRIVILEGE (2 Timothy 1:1-7)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    You know this, that as a whole the people who live in Asia deserted me, and among the deserters are Phygelus and Hermogenes. May the Lord give mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE TURNED. turned. PHYGELLUS, &c. Nothing is known of these two....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A Sad Warning and a Bright Example The connexion is: -Many faithless ones failed me; be thou faithful all the more: the faith and practice of an Onesiphorus may surely be thine....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all they which are in Asia be turned away_ Omit -be"; the tense describes a definite act, not a continuing state. We are left to conjecture when and where this desertion took place. -They which are i...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE LONELINESS OF ST PAUL AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF ONESIPHORUS...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΦΎΓΕΛΟΣ. So all uncials except A which has Φύγελλος, the spelling of the rec. text. 15. ΟἾΔΑΣ. Note the difference between οἶδας here, signifying general, hearsay, knowledge, which was all that Timot...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA, BE TURNED AWAY— Hereby was the prophesy fulfilled, Acts 20:29. The _Asiatics_ were infamous for their cowardice and effeminacy. St. Paul, it has been thought, alludes...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. Onesiphorus 2 Timothy 1:15-18 _TEXT 1:15-18_ 15 This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 16 The Lord grant mercy unto the house of On...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA - Proconsular Asia. 'all there now, when they were in Rom...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THIS THOU KNOWEST, THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA BE TURNED AWAY FROM ME. — This sad desertion of friends is well known to thee. Instead of being dispirited by it, and by my arrest and close imprison...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 28 THE HEARTLESSNESS OF PHYGELUS AND HERMOGENES-THE DEVOTION OF ONESIPHORUS-PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD. - 2 Timothy 1:15 WE have here one of the arguments which St. Paul makes use of in urging his...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    to 2 Timothy 2:2. The leading thoughts in this section are (_a_) the Day of reward and judgment which is surely coming (2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:18), (_b_) the unreasonableness therefore of cowardl...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    οἶδας τοῦτο : There is a personal appeal for loyalty in this reminder. The whole paragraph, with its examples cited of disloyalty and loyalty, was intended as an object lesson to Timothy. ἀπεστράφησά...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “HOLD THE PATTERN OF SOUND WORDS” 2 Timothy 1:12 How striking Paul's reference to the double committal, as if there had been an agreed exchange between his Master and himself! Paul had handed over to...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    AN INJUNCTION TO STEADFASTNESS The apostle urged Timothy to hold tight to the “pattern of sound words.” The word translated "pattern" is the Greek word hupo-tuposis. Joseph Thayer, in his Greek-Englis...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (11) This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. (11) He prevents an offence which arose by the means of certain ones that fell fr...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    All they who are in Asia, are turned away from me. That is, all who are of Asia, or all the Asiatics now at Rome, where I am prisoner, have withdrawn themselves from me, now when I am in danger; but h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (14) That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. (15) В¶ This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15_Thou knowest that all that are in Asia have forsaken me _Those apostasies which he mentions might have shaken the hearts of many, and given rise, at the same time, to many suspicions; as we commonl...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THIS THOU KNOWEST, THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA,.... Either those that followed the apostle from Asia to Rome; or who came from thence thither, upon business, and were upon the spot when the apostl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. Ver. 15. _All they which are in Asia_] All the ministers there. These stars fell from...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _This thou knowest_ Of this thou hast received information; _that all they which are in Asia_ He appears to mean those of Asia who were known to him by a profession of Christianity, and who had attend...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    ALL THEY-IN ASIA; Asia in the narrower sense, the proconsular province of Asia, of which Ephesus was the capital. The word "all" is to be understood popularly of a general defection, for he immediatel...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PAUL'S SORROWFUL AND CHEERFUL EXPERIENCES. 2 Timothy 1:15...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THIS THOU KNOWEST, THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA BE TURNED AWAY FROM ME; OF WHOM ARE PHYGELLUS AND HERMOGENES....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-18 The apostle mentions the constancy of Onesiphorus; he oft refreshed him with his letters, and counsels, and comforts, and was not ashamed of him. A good man will seek to do good. The day of dea...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THIS THOU KNOWEST: probably as to some he had a personal knowledge of their apostacy, as to others he knew it by information, which Paul confirmeth. THAT ALL THEY WHICH ARE IN ASIA BE TURNED AWAY FROM...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics that certain men, like Phygellus, and Hermogenes, and Philetus, and Hymenµus, deserted His apostle:[32] Tertullian Against Hermogenes and has also faile...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    2 Timothy 1:15 This G5124 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 all G3956 in G1722 Asia G773 from G654 ...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    2 Timothy 1:15. THIS THOU KNOWEST. With a singular naturalness, the apostle turns from his earnest exhortation to what we may call the ‘news' of his letter. Yet it is not altogether news. He is tellin...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    ARE TURNED AWAY FROM ME (απεστραφησαν με). Second aorist passive (still transitive here with με) of αποστρεφω, for which verb see Titus 1:14. For the accusative with these passive deponents see Robe...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    DESERTED me. _MacKnight_ thinks only the teachers of the Circumcision Party are meant, possibly some who had followed him to Rome. Timothy is himself in the province of Asia, also Tychicus. (2 Timothy...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _All they which are in Asia be turned away from me._ TO REVOLT AND TURN FROM OUR FORMER PROFESSION IS A FOUL FAULT AND GREAT OFFENCE For Paul doth complain against it, and sets it down as a sin to be...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 2 Timothy 1:15. TURNED AWAY FROM ME.—This does not mean that they had departed from the place where he was, but that they had turned away their faces from him. 2 Timo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    Ver. 15. A few sad notices are now introduced of persons who had failed to do toward the suffering cause of Christ in the apostle what he had been earnestly pressing upon Timothy. _Thou hnowest that a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:10; 2 Timothy 4:16; Acts 16:6;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    In Asia. Proconsular Asia, known as Asia Propria or simply Asia. It was the Romans province formed out of the kingdom of Pergamus, which was bequeathed to the Romans by Attalus III (B. C. 130), includ...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All who are in Asia — Who had attended me at Rome for a while. Are turned away from me — What, from Paul the aged, the faithful soldier, and now prisoner of Christ! This was a glorious trial, and wise...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    By ALL IN ASIA, we are to understand very many, almost all, not every individual person: Some think they were teachers in Asia, others that they were private Christians; some that they were his compan...

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