For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
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Gill's Exposition
Only Luke is with me,.... The beloved physician, who wrote the Gospel that bears his name, and "the Acts of the Apostles", and was a constant companion of Paul's in his travels and sufferings:
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Barnes' Notes
For Demas hath forsaken me - Demas is honorably mentioned in Col 4:14; but nothing more is known of him than what can be gathered from that place and this - that he was at first a friend and…
Adam Clarke
Demas hath forsaken me - This is another proof of the posteriority of this epistle: for Demas was with the apostle in his first imprisonment, and joins in the salutations, see Col 4:14, which were…
Here are divers particular matters which Paul mentions to Timothy, now at the closing of the epistle. 1. He bids him hasten to him, if possible (Ti2 4:9): So thy diligence to come shortly to me. For…
Cambridge Bible
Demas Very likely a shortened form of Demetrius; two persons of the name occur in N.T., Act 19:24, the silversmith of Ephesus, and, 3Jn 1:12, the bearer possibly of that letter, one to whose character…
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