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2Ti 1:1-18. Address: Thankful expression of love and desire to see him: Remembrance of his faith and that of his mother and grandmother. Exhortation to stir up the gift of God in him, and not shrink from affliction, enforced by the consideration of the freeness of God’s grace in our Gospel calling, and by the apostle’s example. The defection of many: The steadfastness of Onesiphorus.
This Epistle is the last testament and swan-like death song of Paul [Bengel].
according to the promise of life ... in Christ - Paul’s apostleship is in order to carry into effect this promise. Compare “according to the faith ... in hope of eternal life ... promise,” etc. (Tit 1:1, Tit 1:2). This “promise of life in Christ” (compare 2Ti 1:10; 2Ti 2:8) was needed to nerve Timothy to fortitude amidst trials, and to boldness in undertaking the journey to Rome, which would be attended with much risk (2Ti 1:8).