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Scofield Reference Notes Book Introductions The Second Epistle of Paul The
(1917 Edition) Apostle to Timothy
WRITER The Apostle Paul (1,1)
DATE The touching letter was written by Paul to his "dearly beloved
son" shortly before his martyrdom (4.6-8), and contains the last
words of the great apostle which inspiration has preserved.
THEME Second Timothy (in common with Second Peter, Jude, and Second and
Third John) has to do with the personal walk and testimony of a
true servant of Christ in a day of apostasy and declension. The
key-phrases are, "All they which are in Asia be turned away from
me" (1.15); and, "A good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2.3). The
Asian churches had not disbanded, nor ceased to call themselves
Christian, but they had turned away from the doctrines of grace
distinctively revealed through the Apostle Paul (see
Introduction, p. 1189). This was the proof that already the
apostasy had set in its first form, legalism.
The natural divisions are four:
I. The Apostle's greeting, 1.1-18
II. The pathway of an approved servant in a day of apostasy
2.1-26
III. Apostasy and the Word, 3.1-17
IV. A faithful servant and his faithful Lord, 4.1-22
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The believer's resources in a day of general declension and apostasy
are: (1) Faith (1.5); (2) the Spirit (1.6,7); (3) the word of God
(1.13 3.1-17 4.3,4) (4) the grace of Christ (2.1); (5) separation
from vessels unto dishonour (2.4,20,21); (6) the Lord's sure reward
(4.7,8); (7) the Lord's faithfulness and power (2.13,19).