Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Timothy 2:8 - 2:8

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 2 Timothy 2:8 - 2:8


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8. Bengel’s comment on the verse is, as usual, illuminating. Paulus exemplo Christi suum, ut solet, exemplum animat.

μνημόνευε. Keep in remembrance, have ever in your thoughts. We have μνημονεύειν with the acc. again in 1Th 2:9.

Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν ἐγηγερμένον ἐκ νεκρῶν. Jesus Christ, as risen from the dead. The memory of the Risen Lord will inspire with courage and faithfulness; note that it is the Vision of the Risen One, not the Vision of the Crucified, which Timothy is bidden to keep before him. The power of the risen life of Christ is ever in St Paul’s mind; cp. Rom 6:9; Rom 7:4.

ἐκ σπέρματος Δαυείς, of the seed of David. Cp. Rom 1:3 where these two leading thoughts, the true Messiahship of Jesus on the one hand, and His Divine Sonship on the other, as guaranteed by His Resurrection, are placed in juxtaposition in like manner. ‘Jesus Christ, risen from the dead’; He is the centre of the New Dispensation. ‘Of the seed of David’; here is the pledge that He has fulfilled the hopes of the Old. Hanc unam genealogiam, says Bengel, a Timotheo vult attendi.

κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιόν μου, according to my gospel, i.e. according to the good tidings which I am commissioned to preach. Cp. for the phrase Rom 2:16; Rom 16:25. To limit it to the written gospel of St Luke (as Jerome suggested) is to introduce an idea quite foreign to the Apostle’s thought.