2 Timothy 1:17

But when he was in Rome,.... Upon some business or another, where the apostle was a prisoner:

he sought me out very diligently, and found me; as there might be many prisons in Rome, he went from one…

But when he was in Rome - What was the employment of Onesiphorus is not known. It may have been that he was a merchant, and had occasion to visit Rome on business. At all events, he was at pains to…

When he was in Rome - Onesiphorus was no doubt an Asiatic, (probably an Ephesian, see below), who had frequent business at Rome; and when he came sought out the apostle, who, it is supposed, had been…

Having (Ti2 1:13, Ti2 1:14) exhorted Timothy to hold fast,

I. He mentions the apostasy of many from the doctrine of Christ, Ti2 1:15. It seems, in the best and purest ages of the church, there were…

when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently It is the simple verb, and, according to the best mss., the positive not the comparative adverb, he sought me diligently. What -close confinement"…