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Verse 5. _IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES_] εαν δε και
αθλη τις. _If a man contend in the public games_-the Olympic or
Isthmian games among the Greeks, so often alluded to and particularly
explaine...
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AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES - As in the Grecian games. See
this favorite illustration of Paul explained in the notes at 1
Corinthians 9:24 ff.
YET IS HE NOT CROWNED, EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFUL...
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II. FAITH'S CONFLICT AND THE BELIEVER'S PATH
CHAPTER 2
_ 1. The apostle's charge (2 Timothy 2:1)_
2. As soldier and husbandman (2 Timothy 2:3)
3. Identification with Christ (2 Timothy 2:8)
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(_d_) 2 Timothy 2:1. THE APPEAL RENEWED. Thus enriched in his
ordination, challenged by Paul's example, and warned by the Asian
defection, Timothy, for all his work, must find continual strength in
hi...
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THE CHAIN OF TEACHING (2 Timothy 2:1-2)...
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IF. App-118
A MAN. any one. App-123.
ALSO STRIVE. strive also,
STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. contend in the games. Greek. _athteo_. Only
here.
NOT. App-105.
CROWNED. Greek. _stephanoo._ Only here and Hebr...
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_And if a man also strive for masteries_ The -also" is placed by R.V.
before -a man" instead of after as A.V.; correctly, though awkwardly;
as implying not that a man may perhaps beside soldiering als...
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The three illustrations follow of the soldier, the athlete, the
farmer, with the common point of _persevering pains_. They are all
familiar to St Paul. That of the soldier has occurred already, 1
Timo...
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Personal and Ministerial Zeal enforced by Parables from the life of
the Soldier, the Athlete and the Farmer
The Apostle resumes the main thread of exhortation to Christian
courage. After its enforcem...
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_b._ THE EXAMPLE OF THE ATHLETE
5. ἘᾺΝ ΔῈ ΚΑῚ�.Τ.Λ., _if any man, again, strive. in
the games_, &c. See the note on 1 Timothy 6:12 for the use of this
metaphor in St Paul and in Philo. ἀθλεῖν does no...
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REPETITION OF CHARGE I. BE STRONG IN CHRIST’S STRENGTH...
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ΆΘΛΉ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΆΘΛΈΩ (G118)
участвовать в состязании. _Conj._ в _conj._ 3
типа, которое предполагает
возможность или вероятность условия,
ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΫ́ΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΌΩ
(G...
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IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES,— _And if a man combat in the
public games, he is not crowned, unless he has observed the rules
prescribed._ Heylin. If, in the Grecian games, they contended
accordi...
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c.
As an athlete 2 Timothy 2:5
_TEXT 2:5_
5 And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he
have contended lawfully.
_Thought Questions 2:5_
74.
Isn-'t there a rather abrupt...
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And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except
he strive lawfully.
AND, [ De (G1161)] - 'Moreover.'
STRIVE FOR MASTERIES - in the great national games of Greece.
YET IS...
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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...
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EXHORTATIONS TO FLRMNESS, UNCONTENTIOUSNESS, AND PERSEVERANCE
1-26. The duties of God's ministers are, (1) to maintain the faith
against assailants and seducers (2 Timothy 2:1; 2 Timothy 2:14; 2
Timot...
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ENDURE HARDNESS] RV 'suffer hardship with me.' A GOOD SOLDIER] The
soldier's virtue is to be shown in resisting, (1) the enemies of the
faith, (2) all evil; and with this end in view he will not devot...
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HOW WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER TO DO GOD’S WORK
2 TIMOTHY
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 2
APPEAL TO BE STRONG AND TO SUFFER (2:1-13)
V1 You then, my child, be strong with the help of Christ Jesus...
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AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. — More accurately
translated, _again, if a man strive in the games._ Another picture is
drawn, and the picture is, as before, a well-known one to all the
dwelle...
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CHAPTER 30
THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE AS MILITARY SERVICE; AS AN ATHLETIC CONTEST; AS
HUSBANDRY. - 2 Timothy 2:3
ST. PAUL represents the Christian life and the Christian ministry
under a variety of figures...
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The sequence of images here the soldier, the athlete, the
field-labourer affords an interesting illustration of repetition due
to association of ideas. The soldier and the field-labourer are
combined...
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The condition of all success is toil; toil which may involve pain.
Think of the price of a soldier's victory, the conditions of an
athlete's crown, of a field-labourer's wage. Our Lord Jesus Himself,...
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“A GOOD SOLDIER OF CHRIST JESUS”
2 Timothy 2:1
_ Soldier_, 2 Timothy 2:1: There is grace enough in Jesus for every
need, but we must avail ourselves of it. We can expect nothing less
than hardship, s...
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In order to fulfil the ideal revealed in the instructions, Timothy was
charged to "be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The
apostle employed three figures of speech, the soldier, the...
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DIFFERENT IMAGES OF A MINISTER'S LIFE
If Timothy was to pass along the gospel, he would have to be prepared
to suffer persecution, self denial and the onslaught of the enemy like
a soldier on active d...
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(3) And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully.
(3) The third admonition: the ministry is similar to a game in which
men strive for the victory, and no...
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(1) В¶ Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in
Christ Jesus. (2) And the things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be ab...
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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...
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_SELF-MASTERY_
‘If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except
he strive lawfully.’
2 Timothy 2:5
Let me ask you in all earnestness whether you have seriously set
before yourself...
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5_And if any one strive _He now speaks of perseverance, that no man
may think that he has done enough when he has been engaged in one or
two conflicts. He borrows a comparison from wrestlers, not one...
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The truth was the especial treasure committed to him; and he has not
only to keep it, as we have seen, but to take care that it was
propagated and communicated to others after him, and perhaps still
f...
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And if a man also strive for masteries, _yet_ is he not crowned,
except he strive lawfully.
Ver. 5. _Except we strive lawfully_] _Tam circa ciborum quam
continentiae ac honestatis rationem, _ saith C...
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_Thou therefore endure hardness_ Κακοπαθησον, literally,
_endure evil;_ that is, expect persecutions and various sufferings,
and, by the powerful aids of divine grace, endure them with courage,
consta...
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LAWFULLY; according to the laws which, in the Grecian games to which
the apostle alluded, governed those who sought the prize....
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AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES, YET IS HE NOT CROWNED EXCEPT
HE STRIVE AWFULLY....
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ADMONITION TO FAITHFULNESS IN THE MINISTRY....
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If in chapter 1 we have seen the blessedness of God's abiding presence
in His beloved saints - whatever may be the human failure everywhere -
now in chapter 2, verses 1 to 13, there is a resulting con...
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1-7 As our trials increase, we need to grow stronger in that which is
good; our faith stronger, our resolution stronger, our love to God and
Christ stronger. This is opposed to our being strong in ou...
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And look as it is in the public games in use amongst you, where divers
strive by wrestling, fighting, racing, where there is a crown proposed
as the prize for those who are the conquerors in the game;...
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Origen Against Celsus Book VIII
For "no one will be crowned," unless here upon earth, with this body
of humiliation, "he strive lawfully."[114]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II
For those...
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2 Timothy 2:5 And G1161 also G2532 if G1437 anyone G5100 athletics
G118 (G5725) is G4737 not G3756 crowned...
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2 Timothy 2:5. STRIVE FOR MASTERIES. St. Paul's habitual way of
looking at the Christian life led him to pass naturally from the
thought of the soldier to that of the athlete. We want some word to
exp...
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IF ALSO A MAN CONTEND IN THE GAMES
(εαν δε κα αθλη τις). Condition of third class with
present (linear) active subjunctive of αθλεω, old and common verb
(from αθλος, a contest), only this verse in N...
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2 Timothy 2:1. _Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is
in Christ Jesus._
Is an exhortation to every one of us, not only to have grace, but to
be strong in it. There are many professor...
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2 Timothy 1:1. _Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is
in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many
witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall...
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CONTENTS: Walk of a good soldier of Christ in times of apostasy.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Timothy, David, Hymenaeus, Philetus, Satan.
CONCLUSION: Those who have work to do for Christ must stir them...
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2 Timothy 2:1. _Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus._ Be
strong in the Lord, and in every virtue. This is chiefly repeated from
Ephesians 6:10.
2 Timothy 2:3. _Endure hardness,_ or hardship...
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UNLESS HE OBEYS THE RULES. An example from the games. After the race,
those who had disobeyed the rules were disqualified. Compare 1
Corinthians 9:27 and note....
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_Not crowned, except he strive lawfully._
LAWFUL STRIVING
The athlete who competes in the games does not receive a crown, unless
he has contended law fully,_ i.e._, according to rule
(νομίμως νόμος...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
2 Timothy 2:3. ENDURE HARDNESS.—R.V. “Suffer hardship with me.”
Compare 2 Timothy 1:8, where the same word occurs. It would seem more
consistent to refer the fellowsh...
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EXPOSITION
2 TIMOTHY 2:1
_Child _for _son_, A.V.; _strengthened _for _strong, _A.V. BE
STRENGTHENED (ἐνδυναμοῦ)_; _more exactly (as Huther),
_become strong, _or, which is the same thing, _strengthe...
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Ver. 5. _But_ (δὲ, introducing a fresh illustration Winer, _Gr_. §
53, 7, _b_; not only so, but there is this further case) _if any one
also strive in the games_ another good rendering of Scholfield's...
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Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace (2 Timothy 2:1)
You see, it is legalism that is threatening the church. This idea that
you can work yourself into divine favor. So "be strong in the gra...
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1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 Peter 5:4; 2 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:8;...
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Strive for masteries [α θ λ η]. N. T. o. o LXX Paul uses
ajgwnizesqai (see 1 Corinthians 9:25), which appears also in 1 Timothy
4:10; 1 Timothy 6:12;...
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THE CHRISTIAN'S TITLES
2 Timothy 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We will discuss the seven distinctive names under which Paul addressed
his son in the faith. As a prelude to these seven names, it might be
h...