2 Timothy 1:8-12

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. 2 Timothy 1:8 tn Grk “the testimony of our Lord.”
2. 2 Timothy 1:8 tn Or “according to.”
3. 2 Timothy 1:8 tn Grk “suffer hardship together,” implying “join with me in suffering.”
4. 2 Timothy 1:9 tn More literally, “who saved us,” as a description of God in v. 8. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
5. 2 Timothy 1:9 tn Or “according to,” or “by.”
6. 2 Timothy 1:9 tn Grk “before eternal times.”
7. 2 Timothy 1:10 tn Grk “having broken…and having brought…” (describing Christ). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here (and at the beginning of v. 11) in the translation.
8. 2 Timothy 1:11 tn Grk “for which.”
9. 2 Timothy 1:11 tc Most mss (א² C D F G Ψ 1241 1505 1739 1881 M al latt sy co) have ἐθνῶν (ethnōn, “of the Gentiles”) after “teacher” (διδάσκαλος [didaskalos ]). The shorter reading has poorer external credentials (א* A I 1175), though codex 33 has a reading apparently generated from διδάσκαλος alone (διάκονος (diakonos, “servant”]). The “teacher” without adjunct is preferred both because ἐθνῶν probably represents a gloss added by scribes familiar with 1 Tim 2:7 and because there is no easy explanation for the omission of ἐθνῶν if it were original here.
10. 2 Timothy 1:12 tn Grk “suffer these things.”
11. 2 Timothy 1:12 tn Or “in whom I have believed.”
12. 2 Timothy 1:12 sn What has been entrusted to me (Grk “my entrustment,” meaning either (1) “what I have entrusted to him” [his life, destiny, etc.] or (2) “what he has entrusted to me” [the truth of the gospel]). The parallel with v. 14 and use of similar words in the pastorals (1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 2:2) argue for the latter sense.
13. 2 Timothy 1:12 sn That day is a reference to the day when Paul would stand before Christ to give account for his service (cf. 2 Tim 1:18; 1 Cor 3:13; 2 Cor 5:9-10).