In the final of his series looking at I and II Timothy, BRUCE C WEARNE examines Paul’s concluding words to his “young associate” Timothy…
In my defence I was, at first, all on my own, for everyone [it seemed had] deserted me. I pray that it may not be reckoned to their charge for this. But the Lord stood by me and gave me the ability I needed in order that [think of it Timothy!] through me the proclamation might be given full effect and that [as per my commission] all the peoples might hear, and so I was delivered from the mouths of lions.
And the Lord’s salvation is for my deliverance from every evil work to preserve me for service in His Kingdom and to Him be all the [high] status and honour for ever and ever. AMEN.
Greet for me Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus has stayed in Corinth, but I left the ailing Trophimus at Miletus. Can you try to come soon, before winter? Greet Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers here send their salutation.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace to you. Amen. – II Timothy 4: 16 – 22
The Lord, Paul said, had protected him. PICTURE: Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash
Paul, a Roman citizen, has appealed to Rome and therefore as the Roman Governor said, “To Rome you shall go!” In these letter we hear of Paul’s chains and we also here of his “defence” – is this a further note to Timothy about his trial that has been included in the “parchment” of the second letter? Or could he be referring more generally to what his life has been? Or both?
Paul was very much on his own, he said. And so, it could refer to either or both of these. Yet he has, he said, made his own defence, his APOLOGIA, his account of his commission, and he found that the One who had given him this work, the One who in mercy had given him right-standing before the throne of grace, was there standing with him, supporting him at his shoulder.
Like Daniel he has been preserved and what Paul has written here for his young associate is actually all we need now to know about Paul’s end: “The Lord is going to deliver me from the consequences of every evil work and will preserve me – for an ongoing life of praise and service – in His everlasting Kingdom and all because to Him shall all eminence and status, all wonder and splendour, be ascribed by what He has done, what He is doing and what He will ever do for ever and ever, henceforth. AMEN.”
OPEN BOOK – PAUL’S SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY: THE LORD STOOD BY ME
In the final of his series looking at I and II Timothy, BRUCE C WEARNE examines Paul’s concluding words to his “young associate” Timothy…
In my defence I was, at first, all on my own, for everyone [it seemed had] deserted me. I pray that it may not be reckoned to their charge for this. But the Lord stood by me and gave me the ability I needed in order that [think of it Timothy!] through me the proclamation might be given full effect and that [as per my commission] all the peoples might hear, and so I was delivered from the mouths of lions.
And the Lord’s salvation is for my deliverance from every evil work to preserve me for service in His Kingdom and to Him be all the [high] status and honour for ever and ever. AMEN.
Greet for me Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus. Erastus has stayed in Corinth, but I left the ailing Trophimus at Miletus. Can you try to come soon, before winter? Greet Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers here send their salutation.
The Lord be with your spirit. Grace to you. Amen. – II Timothy 4: 16 – 22
The Lord, Paul said, had protected him. PICTURE: Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash
Paul, a Roman citizen, has appealed to Rome and therefore as the Roman Governor said, “To Rome you shall go!” In these letter we hear of Paul’s chains and we also here of his “defence” – is this a further note to Timothy about his trial that has been included in the “parchment” of the second letter? Or could he be referring more generally to what his life has been? Or both?
Paul was very much on his own, he said. And so, it could refer to either or both of these. Yet he has, he said, made his own defence, his APOLOGIA, his account of his commission, and he found that the One who had given him this work, the One who in mercy had given him right-standing before the throne of grace, was there standing with him, supporting him at his shoulder.
Like Daniel he has been preserved and what Paul has written here for his young associate is actually all we need now to know about Paul’s end: “The Lord is going to deliver me from the consequences of every evil work and will preserve me – for an ongoing life of praise and service – in His everlasting Kingdom and all because to Him shall all eminence and status, all wonder and splendour, be ascribed by what He has done, what He is doing and what He will ever do for ever and ever, henceforth. AMEN.”
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