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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:22 - 2:22
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Flee - There are many lusts from which our greatest safety is in flight (Gen 39:12). Avoid occasions of sin. From the abstemious character of Timothy (1Ti 5:23) it is likely that not animal indulgences, but the impetuosity, rash self-confidence, hastiness, strife, and vainglory of young men (1Jo 2:14-16), are what he is here warned against: though the Spirit probably intended the warning to include both in its application to the Church in general.
also - Greek, “But”; in contrast to “every good work,” 2Ti 2:21.
youthful - Timothy was a youth (1Ti 4:12).
righteousness - the opposite of “iniquity,” that is, unrighteousness (2Ti 2:19; compare 1Ti 6:11).
peace, with, etc. - rather, put no comma, “peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (1Ti 1:5; Eph 6:5; Col 3:22). We are to love all men, but it is not possible to be at peace with all men, for this needs community of purpose and opinion; they alone who call on the Lord sincerely (as contrasted with the false teachers who had only the form of godliness, 2Ti 3:5, 2Ti 3:8; Tit 1:15, Tit 1:16) have this community [Theodoret]. (Rom 12:18).