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A Soldier's Undivided Duty
Commentators unanimously highlight the verse's central analogy: a Roman soldier. Roman law forbade soldiers on active duty from engaging in farming, trade, or other civilian business. In the same way, a Christian is called to a single-minded devotion to Christ's service, avoiding entanglement in worldly affairs that would distract from their primary mission.
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2 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Timothy 2:4
18th Century
Theologian
No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life. Having alluded to the soldier, and stated one thing in which the Christi…
AT Robertson
On 2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier on service (ουδεις στρατευομενος). "No one serving as a soldier." See 1 Corinthians 9:7 for this old verb a…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Timothy 2:4
19th Century
Bishop
No man that warreth . . .—This is better rendered, while engaged on military service, or serving as a soldie…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Timothy 2:4
19th Century
Preacher
No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Timothy 2:4
No one “serving as a soldier” gets entangled in the affairs of this life. The soldier must lay aside all secular pursuits, and the Christian minist…
John Calvin
On 2 Timothy 2:4
16th Century
Theologian
No man who warreth. He continues to use the metaphor he had borrowed from warfare. Yet, strictly speaking, he previously called Timothy “a…
John Gill
On 2 Timothy 2:4
17th Century
Pastor
No man that wars
Who is a soldier, and gives himself up to military service, in a literal sense: the Vulgate Latin v…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Timothy 2:1–7
17th Century
Minister
As our trials increase, we need to grow stronger in that which is good: our faith stronger, our resolution stronger, our love to God and Christ str…