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2Ti 1:9. Σώσαντος, who has saved) by conversion; Act 2:47. There is here an excellent description of the love of the Father, of the grace of the Saviour, and of the whole economy of salvation, for the propagation of which it is worth while to suffer and die. This salvation is not merely a thing to be acquired (acquisitiva), but a thing to be applied (applicativa), for this very reason, that it is so closely connected with the calling. All the things which are placed, 2Ti 1:9, under κατὰ, in actual fact [in the very act] precede salvation and calling. Salvation and calling, in point of fact, follow. If a man comes into the state of being called, this is already the beginning of his whole salvation; and in this sense calling is a part of salvation: salvation is the whole, but both are very closely connected. The anxiety itself of the Shepherd is prior to the actual time of the little sheep hearing the voice of the Shepherd.-κλήσει ἁγίᾳ, with a holy calling) which is entirely from God, and claims us entirely for God. The holiness and Divine origin of this calling is afterwards more fully described, especially as the epithet ἰδίαν, His own, excludes our own works.-ἰδίαν, His own) Rom 9:11; Eph 2:8; 1Ti 6:15, note.-τὴν δοθεῖσαν, given to us) Before we existed, it was given to us, the Mediator even already at that time receiving it.-ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ-διὰ-Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, in Christ Jesus-by-of Christ Jesus) The name Christ is very skilfully put first when the old economy is mentioned; the name Jesus, when the new economy is mentioned.-πρὸ χρόνων αἰωνίων, before eternal ages) Tit 1:2; Rom 16:25, note.