“Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;”
Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God — Paul's exhortation forbids aischynē (shame) regarding martyria (testimony) and himself as desmios (prisoner). Instead, Timothy must koinnōneō (participate) in suffering (pathēmata) through divine power.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 1:8
There is nothing worse than that man should measure and judge of divine things by human reasonings. For thus he will fall from that rock a vast distance, and be deprived of the light. For if he who wishes with human eyes to apprehend the rays of the sun will not only not apprehend them, but, besides this failure, will sustain great injury; so, but in a higher degree, is he in a way to suffer this, and abusing the gift of God, who would by human reasonings gaze intently on…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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