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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:11 - 2:11
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Greek, “Faithful is the saying.”
For - “For” the fact is so that, “if we be dead with Him (the Greek aorist tense implies a state once for all entered into in past times at the moment of regeneration, Rom 6:3, Rom 6:4, Rom 6:8; Col 2:12), we shall also live with Him.” The symmetrical form of “the saying,” 2Ti 2:11-13, and the rhythmical balance of the parallel clauses, makes it likely, they formed part of a Church hymn (see on 1Ti 3:16), or accepted formula, perhaps first uttered by some of the Christian “prophets” in the public assembly (1Co 14:26). The phrase “faithful is the saying,” which seems to have been the usual formula (compare 1Ti 1:15; 1Ti 3:1; 1Ti 4:9; Tit 3:8) in such cases, favors this.