Review of the Paraphrase of the New Testament, 2 Timothy
On the ſecond EPISTLE to TIMOTHY.
Chap. I. ver. 15.
[All they which are in Aſia be turned away from me.]
All the Aſian Chriſtians that were at Rome, ſave onelyonly Oneſiphorus, ver. 16. fell off from me in time of my diſtreſs.
Ibid. ver. 18.
[In how many things he *Hath miniſtred at Epheſus, thou better knoweſt.miniſtred to me at Epheſus, thou knoweſt very well.]
Beſides what he hath now done to me, thou knoweſt alſo, better than I can tell thee, how many liberalities he hath ſhewed at Epheſus, to thoſe that have ſtood in need of him.
Chap. II. ver. 6.
[The husbandman, &c.]
So in husbandry, &c. and ſuch is the gaining and converting of ſoules, and the far richer reward that attends that in another world.
Ibid. Note b. Of foreign, Read, Their words ſpread as a gangrene doth, when 'tis gotten into any part of the body, for that is the meaning of foreign. So in S. Chryſoſtome, foreign.T. 3. p. 631. l. 13. foreign, he feared leaſt tht miſchief would ſpread farther, and going along ſhould ſeize on the whole Church. The word is uſed of ſheep, &c. feeding, and by little and little going over a whole paſture, whence among the Antients the foreign a wandring people, which had no certain habitation, vagi & incertis ſedibus errantes, ſaith Saluſt of the Numidae, and ſo Seneca, cals the Scythians and Getes, vagos wanderers, i. e. foreign. And it is uſed of fire alſo ſpreading and devouring, as it goes. So in S. Chryſoſtome, T. 3. p. 712. l. 30. foreign, the flame of this error ſpread over all the Galatians. And ſo of many other things, —foreign, In Heſiod, words wander here and there, unreſtrained. And Chryſoſtome, T. 4. p. 710. l. 1. foreign, the dogge wanders, goes about with the ſheep, for ſure he eats not graſs with them. And ſo Num. 14.33. foreign, your children ſhall wander in the wilderneſs. So in *foreign.Dorotheus, foreign, it ſpreads, it goes farther every day.
foreign.Ibid. Note d. Of foreign, Adde, Theophylact goes farther yet, and will have the phraſe [caught, and taken by him] refer to God alſo. But that cannot well be admitted, becauſe in all reaſon, they muſt be conceived to be caught by him, who layes the ſnare, and that is the divell in the former part of the verſe.
foreign.Chap. III. Note a. Of the parallel betwixt Simon and the Gnoſticks, and Jannes and Jambres, Adde, See Proſper de dimid. temp. *c. 13.Duo Magi Pharaonis Jannes & Jambres reſiſtentes Moiſi— & contra Neronem Petrus & Paulus Apoſtoli, at contrariò Simon Magus, qui & ſe perdidit, & Neronem decepit. Moſes and Aaron came to Pharaoh, Jannes and Jambres two Magicians of Pharaoh reſiſted them. Peter and Paul the Apoſtles came againſt Nero, but Simon Magus was on the other ſide, and both deſtroyed himſelf & deceived Nero. And accordingly Suetonius, &c. And that this warning of S. Paul to Timothy belongs to theſe that then lived, and not to ſome that were to come toward the end of the world, foreign.theſe latter dayes of ours, may appear verſ. 5. by the exhortation to him to turn away from ſuch. And upon this conſideration Theophylact confeſſeth, that by the laſt times may be meant thoſe immediately following S. Pauls death, foreign.wherein Timothy ſhould ſurvive.
Chap. IV. ver. 14.
[bb *Will or ſhall reward foreign.Reward.]
Note bb. Of this forme of ſpeech foreign, 'tis not here amiſs to note that the full importance of it is no more than a Prophetical denuntiation or prediction that ſhould in the juſt judgement of God befall. Thus ſome of the beſt MSS. read foreign, the Lord ſhall reward; Other of the antients who read foreign Reward, yet expound it foreign ſhall reward. So the Author of the Queſtions and anſwers, aſſigned to Juſtine, making it foreign a prediction. So Chryſoſtome and Theophylact foreign, it is inſtead of the future, ſhall render, adding that pious men do not rejoyce in, or deſire to haſten the puniſhments of the wicked, but that they foretell them, the Goſpel and weak beleevers having need of ſuch comforts. To this may be added, that it is a vulgar Hebraiſme for the Imperative and Future tenſe to be uſed promiſcuouſly, the one for the other, foreign Pſal. 7.9. in the future, complebitur or conſumetur, ſhall be conſumed or fulfilled, is yet by the antient Interpreters rendred in the Imperative, foreign, ſay the 72. Let it be accompliſh'd; and ſo the Chaldee, Syriack, Arabick, and Ethicpick, and onelyonly the Vulgar Latine retains conſumetur, ſhall be conſumed. Thus on the other ſide, Mat. 10.13. foreign, Let your peace return to you, is ſure a promiſe from Chriſt, or prediction, that their peace ſhall return to them, and thus is it innumerable times in the ſacred dialect of theſe Books.