Verse 11
11. Despise him Paul said to Timothy himself, “Let no man despise thy youth,” (1 Timothy 4:12,) as if his youth were the only thing that could be despised.
In peace As with a parting salaam.
With the brethren What brethren these were with whom he wished Timothy to come is uncertain. Stanley suggests that the bearers of this epistle were to be a sort of mission to Corinth, with Apollos at their head, but that he declined. “This mission was composed of Titus and two other brethren,” (2 Corinthians 8:18; 2 Corinthians 8:22-23,) whose names are not mentioned. With these brethren, probably, it was that Paul expected Timothy to come.
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