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    Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy: New Testament Bible Commentary Series

    By JOHN MILLER

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    Bible teacher John Miller explores the short second letter of the Apostle Paul to young Timothy in this helpful Bible commentary.  Hyperlinked scriptures are provided for all Bible verses referenced.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateNov 30, 2018
    ISBN9781386293514
    Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    JOHN MILLER

    JOHN MILLER (1882-1968) was born at Blackridge, Scotland of humble parents. He was saved in his youth, baptized and added to the assembly then at Blackridge, halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. He joined the service of the North British Railway Co. as a clerk but that occupation did not tax his mental talents. He belonged to a generation which produced many able brethren who had no opportunity of higher education in secular subjects. Their ability was used on the study of the Bible. There were a lot of such men in the Brethren Movement and some found their way into the Churches of God. He was one of them. At 26 years of age he became a full-time servant of the Lord and, at the relatively young age of 29 years, he was writing papers on doctrinal subjects for the overseers' conference. In 1925 when he was 42 years he was recognised as one of the leading brothers of the Churches of God. In the course of his work as a Lord's Servant he visited most parts of the Fellowship except Nigeria. In the U.K. he was known from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Isles, not only by saints in the Churches of God.  He studied the whole scope of Bible teaching and his vision took in the world. As a man, he was a very able man; as a man of God, there were few his equal. He was outstanding in any group of men and at all times a pillar among his fellows. Had he been a politician he would have made his mark among the great ones of the earth. He spoke like an orator as one may hear from a few tapes of his ministry which are available. There are many, many articles in Needed Truth and Bible Studies and Intelligence. His notes of the books of the New Testament can be obtained from Hayes Press.  He married Mary Smith, daughter of a former Lord's Servant, David Smith and they had ten children.

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      Notes on the Second Epistle to Timothy - JOHN MILLER

      PAUL’S LETTERS TO TIMOTHY - WHEN AND WHERE WRITTEN (W. BUNTING)

      A brief consideration of the background of the sender and the recipient of these letters should help us. Saul, later called Paul, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, was a citizen of no mean city; a Pharisee, and the son of a Pharisee; of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; circumcised the eighth day; trained as a tent-maker; educated at the feet of the great Gamaliel; as touching the righteousness which is in the Law, blameless; honoured with Roman citizenship.

      Timothy lived in Lystra, on the north side of the Taurus mountains. His father was a Greek. His mother, Eunice, a Jewess, and his grand­mother, Lois, were women of unfeigned faith, and they sought to instruct Timothy from childhood in the sacred writings. He was uncircumcised.

      What was it brought these two men with such dissimilar back­grounds together to work, with others, as a remarkable team in the spread of the message of the gospel? We know that the experience of Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus Road was the turning point in his life (Acts 26:12-19). In the case of Timothy, one wonders if this young man witnessed the scenes in Lystra during the apostle’s first visit to that city. They stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead (Acts 14:19). Was Timothy one of the disciples that stood around the seeming lifeless Paul, and witnessed his miraculous recovery? Years later the apostle reminded Timothy of the sufferings which befell him at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra (2 Tim.3:11).

      It was during Paul’s second visit to Lystra with Silas that he found Timothy, who was well reported of by the brethren at Lystra and Iconium, and him would Paul have to go forth with him (Acts 16:2,3). Thus was forged a link between Paul and Timothy which became stronger as the years passed.

      My beloved and faithful child in the Lord (1 Cor.4:17); I have no man likeminded (Phil.2:20); My true child in faith (1 Tim.1:2); My beloved child (2 Tim.1:2). These are but some of the apostle’s references to Timothy which show the close bond that existed between them.

      There is little to help us to determine when and where the first letter to Timothy was written. We learn from 1 Tim. 1:3 that Paul exhorted Timothy to remain at Ephesus while he journeyed into Macedonia. The letter was written in the hope that he would soon return to Ephesus (1 Tim.3:14). We therefore suggest that it was written before his final visit to Miletus when he sent for the elders from Ephesus and conveyed the sad news that they would see his face no more (Acts 20:38).

      The letter contains guidance to the young man Timothy on a wide range of matters associated with the house of God; exhortation to prayer, qualifications to be looked for in overseers and deacons, the attitude of servants to masters and masters to servants, and much else besides.

      I appeal unto Caesar — these words were uttered before Festus when Paul exercised his right of appeal as a Roman citizen to the supreme tribunal of the Emperor at Rome (Acts 25:11). The second letter to Timothy was written under the shadow of his appearance before the Emperor, and the possible outcome of his appeal.* That Paul was still chained to a Roman soldier is borne out by his refer­ence to the frequent visits

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