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Faithful is the saying (pistos ho logos). The saying which follows here though it can refer to the preceding as in 1Ti 4:9. See note on 1Ti 1:15. It is possible that from here to the end of 2Ti 2:13 we have the fragment of an early hymn. There are four conditions in these verses (2Ti 2:11), all of the first class, assumed to be true. Parallels to the ideas here expressed are found in 2Th 1:5; 1Co 4:8; 2Co 7:3; Rom 6:3-8; Col 3:1-4. Note the compounds with sun (sunapethanomen, we died with, from sunapothnesko as in 2Co 7:3; sunzēsomen, we shall live with, from sunzaō as in 2Co 7:3; sumbasileusomen, we shall reign with, from sumbasileuō as in 1Co 4:8). For hupomenomen (we endure) see note on 1Co 13:7 and for apistoumen (we are faithless) see note on Rom 3:3. The verb arneomai, to deny (arnēsometha, we shall deny, arnēsetai, he will deny, arnēsasthai, deny, first aorist middle infinitive) is an old word, common in the Gospels in the sayings of Jesus (Mat 10:33; Luk 12:9), used of Peter (Mar 14:70), and is common in the Pastorals (1Ti 5:8; Tit 2:12; 2Ti 3:5). Here in 2Ti 2:13 it has the notion of proving false to oneself, a thing that Christ “cannot” (ou dunatai) do.