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I commit (paratithemai). Present middle indicative of old and common verb, to place beside (para) as food on table, in the middle to entrust (Luk 12:48) and used by Jesus as he was dying (Luk 23:46). Here it is a banking figure and repeated in 2Ti 2:2.
According to the prophecies which went before on thee (kata tas proagousas epi se prophēteias). Intransitive use of proagō, to go before. When Timothy first comes before us (Act 16:2) “he was testified to” (emartureito) by the brethren. He began his ministry rich in hopes, prayers, predictions.
That by them thou mayest war the good warfare (hina strateuēi en autais tēn kalēn strateian). Cognate accusative (strateian, old word from strateuō, in N.T. only here and 2Co 4:4) with strateuēi (second person singular middle present subjunctive of strateuō, old verb chiefly in Paul in N.T., 1Co 9:7; 2Co 10:3). As if in defensive armour.