Chapter two continues with a few analogies, a few commands, and a few reminders. First, Paul used the analogies of a soldier and a farmer to illustrate the focus required to serve God well (2 Timothy 2:1-7). Just like a soldier cannot be concerned with things around him when he is in training and in […]
Probably within about two years after writing 1 Timothy, Paul was once again arrested and taken to Rome. This would be his final journey, because he was beheaded there under the growing persecution of Nero against Christians and Christianity. Paul wrote 2 Timothy from prison in Rome around A.D. 66, the last preserved writing we
Peter’s intended recipients were people scattered throughout Asia Minor. The word diaspora, “dispersion,” is used elsewhere only twice. In James 1:1 the “twelve tribes” are specified, and in John 7:25 it refers to Jews dispersed “among the Greeks. استراتيجيات الروليت ” Although there are principles available for all Christians of all time, since Peter was
