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I. PAUL’S HORTATORY REHEARSAL OF THE PAST; PREPARATORY TO A CONFIRMATION OF TIMOTHY IN THE FUTURE, 2 Timothy 1:3-18.
1. Faithfulness of Timothy’s parentage an incitement to firmness for the glorious gospel of Christ, 2 Timothy 1:3-10.
3. Thank God For what? The mind of the apostle looks to 2 Timothy 1:5, overleaping the accumulated particulars intervening, for the expression of the object of his thanks, namely, the hereditary and persistent piety of Timothy.
From my forefathers Not merely the forefathers of his nation, as Abraham, and others; but rather his own more immediate personal progenitors, like those of Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:5.
Serve… with pure conscience They served God with a pure conscience before Christ came; he serves the same God with as pure a conscience since Christ came. His holy forefathers were in their day as true Christians as he; he in his day is as true Jew as they. See our notes on Acts 26:1; Acts 26:6.
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