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Second Timothy II. 11. 209
achieved. This condition is, to die with the Lord, that we may live
with him ; to suffer, that we may reign with him—a consequence as
certain as that, conversely, our denial of him involves his denial of
us, and our faithlessness can never nullify his essential truth and
fidelity. We must be dead with him {d-nodavelv^ Aor., the condition
must he first fulfilled); then shall we live with him. This dying
is not the spiritual death of the old man, Kom. vi. 3, seq,, but the
devotion of our life to death with him and for his sake, as at 1 Cor.
XV. 31, "I die daily;" 2 Cor. vi. 9, iv. 10, comp. at Phih iii. 10.
Such is the demand of the context—Timothy being called upon to
endure suffering—as also of the following vnonEvofisv^ k. t. A. On the
expression, comp. 2 Cor. vii. 3. On av^riooiiev^ comp. Eom. vi. 8, 9,
and with this the reference of our passage to eyrjyep., ver. 8. Iv^/j-
Go^eVj elsewhere only at 2 Cor. vii. 3, thus again specially Pauline.
If aTTeOdvofiev appears as a single act (the source of the Kad' ijiiepav
dnod.), vnofiivELv, on the contrary, and the following verbs mark continuance.
With vTToix^vo) supply gvv avrG>. On the term avfxfiaGL-
Xeveiv (peculiar also to Paul), comp. 1 Cor. iv. 8 ; on the thought,
Eom. v.l7,viii. 17 ; Eph. ii. 6, though in the latter passage we are
also to note (see Harless), the variation in the thought, ^v^yv,
avuPaoiXevsLv form a manifest climax ;
to share not only his life, but
his glory, his dominion. El dpvov[j,sda, sc. avrov, as shewn by the
apodosis ; comp, Matth. x. 32, 33. Olshausen gives correctly its import
here ; it marks the succumbing of feeble faith under suffering
and persecution. 'Amorovnev is not " unbelief," but, as shewn by
the apodosis maTog jxevsi, with its explanatory dpvrjaavdat, k. t. X.,
" unfaithfulness ;" thus marog elsewhere with the apostle ; comp. at
ver. 2, and specially at Kom. iii, 3, and there De Wette. Uiorbg
fisvei is resolved by the confirmatory clause, " he cannot deny himself
;", faithlessness as well as fidelity thus meets a response in the
essential truthfulness of the Divine jiature.
'E/ceZvof
dvvarac thus
belong together, as corresponding to el dmoTovixev ; it is obvious
why the writer does not proceed mKeXvog dmarel, but gives the
thought this positive turn. We need not, therefore, with De
Wette, subordinate d dinaroviisv in thought to the preceding, and
regard it as a justification of the KaKtlvog dpvjjoeTat. Tap after dpvi]-
oaodat is retained for external reasons ; comp. Tischendorf. On the
asyndeta in the union of the preceding clauses, of which the two
latter form a contrast to the former, comp. Winer's Gr., § 60, 2.
There seems no ground for recognizing here, especially admitting yap,
ver. 13, as genuine, strophes of a Christian hymn ; as Heydenreich,
Mack, etc., after Paulus (Memor. 1, p. 109), Munter. (Early Christ,
poesy, p. 29).
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