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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Timothy 1:9 - 1:9
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Who ... called us - namely, God the Father (Gal 1:6). The having “saved us” in His eternal purpose of “grace, given us in Christ before the world began,” precedes his actual “calling” of us in due time with a call made effective to us by the Holy Spirit; therefore, “saved us” comes before “called us” (Rom 8:28-30).
holy calling - the actual call to a life of holiness. Heb 3:1, “heavenly calling” [Tittmann, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament]; whereas we were sinners and enemies (Eph 1:18; Eph 4:1). The call comes wholly from God and claims us wholly for God. “Holy” implies the separation of believers from the rest of the world unto God.
not according to - not having regard to our works in His election and calling of grace (Rom 9:11; Eph 2:8, Eph 2:9).
his own purpose - The origination of salvation was of His own purpose, flowing from His own goodness, not for works of ours coming first, but wholly because of His own gratuitous, electing love [Theodoret and Calvin].
grace ... given us - in His everlasting purpose, regarded as the same as when actually accomplished in due time.
in Christ - believers being regarded by God as IN HIM, with whom the Father makes the covenant of salvation (Eph 1:4; Eph 3:11).
before the world began - Greek, “before the times (periods) of ages”; the enduring ages of which no end is contemplated (1Co 2:7; Eph 3:11).