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2Ti 2:26. Καὶ) and so.-ἀνανήψωσιν) This depends on if at any time: if they may awake, and shake off sleep.-ἐκ τῆς-παγίδος, from the snare) There are here two evils, captivity and sleep; and there are two good things, awaking and deliverance. An abbreviated expression.-ἐζωγρημένοι) Luk 5:10; taken captive willingly.-ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, by him[11]) by the servant of the Lord. Where God goes before, 2Ti 2:25, the work of His servant (2Ti 2:24) is successful. God rouses: His servant draws them out of the snare.-εἰς τὸ) Construed with, if at any time they may awake. Ἐκ marks the terminus from which they set out, εἰς that to which they are to go. The former terminus is, oppose themselves, 2Ti 2:25, and the snare of the devil, 2Ti 2:26 : the latter is the acknowledgment of the truth and the will of God.-ἐκείνου, of Him[12]) God.-θέλημα, will) which is entirely free, and gives freedom; 1Pe 4:2. The opposite is, from the snare. Paul himself was awakened to conversion, so that he might “know the will of God;” Act 22:14.
[11] Not, by the devil, as in the Engl. Vers. They are taken so as to be saved alive, as ἐζωγρημένοι literally means. So our Lord uses the same word, and of the same thing, to Peter, Luk 5:10.-ED.
[12] Ἐκείνου being evidently distinct from αὐτοῦ; the latter referring to the servant of God, the former to God. Not as Engl. Vers., both referring to the devil.-ED.