2 Timothy 1:2

To Timothy, my dearly beloved son,.... Not in a natural, but in a spiritual sense; and not on account of his being an instrument of his conversion, but by reason of that instruction in the doctrines…

To Timothy, my dearly beloved son; - See the notes at 1Ti 1:2. Grace, mercy, and peace - see the notes at Rom 1:7.

To Timothy, my dearly beloved son - See the note on Ti1 1:2.

Here is, I. The inscription of the epistle Paul calls himself an apostle by the will of God, merely by the good pleasure of God, and by his grace, which he professes himself unworthy of. According to…

my dearly beloved son Or my beloved child. -Child" as in 1Ti 1:1; -beloved" in place of -mine own," but surely not a weaker word, when we remember its use to express -the only begotten," Mat…