2 TIMOTHY 1:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.”
May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day — and you well know all the service he rendered in Ephesus. — Paul's intercessory prayer (didōmi) for Onesiphorus's ultimate eschatological mercy (eleos) and acknowledgment of his services (diakonos) in Ephesus reinforce how pastoral fidelity generates divine reward.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 1:18
Not by letters alone did Paul instruct his disciple in his duty, but before by words also which he shows, both in many other passages, as where he says, “whether by word or our Epistle” 2 Thessalonians 2:15, and especially here. Let us not therefore suppose that anything relating to doctrine was spoken imperfectly. For many things he delivered to him without writing. Of these therefore he reminds him, when he says, “Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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