According to my gospel:— That is, "The gospel which I have preached." St. Paul seems to say, My Gospel, by way of emphasis, in opposition to the false gospel delivered by Hymeneus and Philetus; who perhaps preached, That the resurrection was past: therefore the apostle calls upon Timothy, To remember Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, raised from the dead,—the true Messiah, lineally descended from David; who, like David, endured a variety of sufferings; but being raised from the dead, affords a thousand arguments to his followers to support their sufferings like him, in confident hope of the same resurrection.

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