15This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
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At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. …
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)Having ( 2 Tim. 1:13 , 14 ) exhorted Timothy to hold fast, I. He mentions the apostasy of many from the doctrine of Christ, 2 Tim. 1:15. It seems, in the best and purest ages of the church, there were those that had embraced the Christian faith, and yet afterwards revolted from it, nay, there were many such. He does not say that they had turned away from the doctrine of Christ (though it should se…
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