2 Timothy 4:17 — Community Reflections

2 TIMOTHY 4:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 1

“Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.”

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully made and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. — Theological reversal: though abandoned by humans, kyrios (the Lord) stood beside Paul, endunamoousa (strengthening) him so the kerygma (proclamation) be teleiotis (completely made) to all ethnē (nations). The lion's mouth (satanic opposition) yielded to divine rescue.

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