2 TIMOTHY 4:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.”
For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. — The painful roster: Demas's apostasy motivated by kosmou agapē (love of world) and philo-proxenia (desertion), while Crescens and Titus pursue apostolic assignments. Mixed fidelities mark the end time.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 4:10
It is worth while to enquire why he calls Timothy to him, inasmuch as he was entrusted with a Church, and a whole nation. It was not from arrogance. For Paul was ready to come to him; for we find him saying, “But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God.” 1 Timothy 3:15 But he was withholden by a strong necessity. He was no longer master of his own movements. He was in prison, and had been confined by Nero, and was all but on the…
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