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<div2 id="iiTim.i" n="i" next="iiTim.ii" prev="iiTim" progress="70.27%" title="Introduction">
<div class="Center" id="iiTim.i-p0.1"><h2 id="iiTim.i-p0.2">Second Timothy</h2>
<p id="iiTim.i-p1">Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="iiTim.i-p1.1">Benjamin Andrews
Atkinson</span>.</p>
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<div class="Center" id="iiTim.i-p1.3">
<p id="iiTim.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
<h3 id="iiTim.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
<h4 id="iiTim.i-p2.2">W I T H   P R A C T I C A L   O B S E
R V A T I O N S,</h4>
<h5 id="iiTim.i-p2.3">OF THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO</h5>
<h2 id="iiTim.i-p2.4">T I M O T H Y.</h2>
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<p class="indent" id="iiTim.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="iiTim.i-p3.1">This</span> second
epistle Paul wrote to Timothy from Rome, when he was a prisoner
there and in danger of his life; this is evident from these words,
<i>I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at
hand,</i> <scripRef id="iiTim.i-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:2Tim.4.6" parsed="|2Tim|4|6|0|0" passage="2Ti 4:6"><i>ch.</i> iv. 6</scripRef>.
It appears that his removal out of this world, in his own
apprehension, was not far off, especially considering the rage and
malice of his persecutors; and that he had been brought before the
emperor Nero, which he calls <i>his first answer, when no man stood
with him, but all men forsook him,</i> <scripRef id="iiTim.i-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:2Tim.4.16" parsed="|2Tim|4|16|0|0" passage="2Ti 4:16"><i>ch.</i> iv. 16</scripRef>. And interpreters agree
that this was the last epistle he wrote. Where Timothy now was is
not certain. The scope of this epistle somewhat differs from that
of the former, not so much relating to his office as an evangelist
as to his personal conduct and behaviour.</p>
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