Verse 12
12. For the which cause For this divine and eternal purpose and salvation of 2 Timothy 1:9-11.
Suffer… not ashamed As he had charged Timothy, 2 Timothy 1:8, to be not ashamed either of the cause or its apostle. For this suffer had a terrible garb of ignominy about it. The chain, the base soldier, the surrounding crowd of malefactors, the scorn of the Roman world, and the withdrawal of even professing Christians, were almost overwhelming loads of shame. Hence our apostle is obliged to say even to his beloved son Timothy, be not ashamed, for I am not ashamed.
For To give the solid reason for his not ashamed.
I know There was a moveless basis in this I know. So many proofs he had had that he rested on the eternal rock.
Whom That rock was Christ.
That which I have committed In Greek, a single word, the deposit. What was the said deposit? Himself; his own entire being, temporal and eternal, devoted by faith, believed, committed to Christ.
That day The day on which all Christian thought was then resting, the judgment advent of Christ.
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