The good deposit guard by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.1 II. 3. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Thou therefore endure afflictions, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 26. And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. And that they may awake from the snare of the devil, being his captives, to do his (God's) will.3 III. 10. But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, &c. But thou hast been a diligent follower of my doctrine, manner of life, &c. IV. 1. I charge thee, therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; I charge thee, therefore, before God, even5 the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, even (arrayed in the kingly powers) of his kingdom;6 2. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; convince, rebuke, exhort with all patience and teaching.7 5. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. But be thou sober8 in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil 9 thy ministry. 6. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. For I am already being poured out as an offering,10 and the time of my departure is at hand. 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, &c. Henceforth there is laid up for me thell crown of righteousness, which the Lord, &c. The second epistle unto Timotheus, &c. The second epistle unto Timothy, 12 &c. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO TITUS. I. 1. PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 7 See Hare's Mission of the Comforter, 2nd edit. p. 329, where the translation of this verse is discussed. 8 Νῆφε. • Πληροφόρησον. 1 Ο τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος. 12 See note on Rom. xvi. ¶ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 9. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able to instruct in sound doctrine, and to refute the gainsayers.2 II. 11. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, For the grace of God, which bringeth salvation to all men, hath appeared,3 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Looking for that blessed hope, even the appearance of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ; III. 8. This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works: &c. 1 66 "According to the faith" &c. is hardly sense. Macknight says Kará means here for, or in order to, and his translation I have adopted; but Conybeare and Howson say ἀπόστολος κατὰ πίστιν means an apostle sent forth on an errand of faith. 2 The latter part of this verse has been misrendered in a manner that obscures, if it does not pervert, the sense. Our Version seems to make the main part of the ministerial office consist in dealing with gainsayers; whereas the more important part of it mainly pertains to the training of the believing members of the Church.-Hare's Mission of the Comforter, 2nd edit. p. 360. This is the marginal reading, and, doubtless, the exact rendering of the original. 4 See Granville Sharp's Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament, (3rd edit. 1803) p. 50. It is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm unflinchingly, that they who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works: &c. It was written to Titus, &c.5 THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO PHILEMON. 20. YEA, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord. Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord : ease the commotion in my heart 6 in the Lord. Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.7 THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE HEBREWS. GOD, who I. 1. at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, God, who in sundry portions and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 5 See note on Rom. xvi. ¶ 6 Ανάπαυσον μου τὰ σπλάγχνα. 66 7 See note on Rom. xvi. ¶ 8 Πολυμερῶς. Sundry portions," not of time, but of the matter of the revelation. God gave His revelation in parts, piecemeal, as you teach a child to spell a word-letter by letter, syllable by syllableadding all at last together. 2. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom &c. Hath at the end of those days spoken unto us in a1 Son, whom &c. 6. And again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. But when he brought again the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. II. 7. Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; &c. Thou madest him for a little while inferior to3 the angels; &c. 9. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; &c. But we see Jesus, who was, for a little while, made God had a Word to spell-His own name. By degrees he did it. At last it came entire. The Word was made Flesh.Robertson's Sermons, 2nd series, serm. xii. 1 By substituting the possessive pronoun for the indefinite article-His Son, for a Son our translators have removed the emphasis from the right word; they have led readers to take the word "Son" as a chance synonyme of Christ or the Messiah. Whereas the writer of the Epistle is striving to show that only to a Son of God can belong certain quotations from the Old Testament, which the Pharisees believed |