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#10.
A Ministry of Refreshing (1: 15 - 18).
pp. 232 - 234
There now remains to be considered the third reference to being ashamed which
completes the study of II Tim. 1: 8-18:
B3 | 15-18. Onesiphorus--Not ashamed of chain of prisoner.
SUBJECT.--Service.
TIME.--That day.
f3 | 15. Thou knowest.
g3 | 15. In Asia. All turned away from me.
h3 | 16. The Lord give mercy.
g3 | 17. In Rome, He sought and found me.
h3 | 18. The Lord grant mercy.
g3 | 18. In Ephesus, He ministered unto me.
f3 | 18. Thou knowest very well.
The lowly yet faithful ministry of Onesiphorus may have been introduced here for
Timothy's encouragement in his stand for the truth that was now the object of such
animosity and opposition.
"This thou knowest" (II Tim. 1: 15).
"Thou knowest very well" (II Tim. 1: 18).
In reminding Timothy of the service of Onesiphorus, two words which we must notice
are used by the Apostle, eideo and ginosko.
When Paul would speak of the defection of those in Asia, he was telling Timothy
something of which he had but heard, not of which he had full and personal knowledge,
for eideo, means "to perceive" and that the subject of the knowledge has come within the
observer's sphere. But the ministry of Onesiphorus at Ephesus was something more
intimately known and understood by Timothy, seeing that he was present at Ephesus at
the time concerned, and had been there for some time prior to Paul's second
apprehension (I Tim. 1: 3).
The occurrences of eideo in II Timothy are:--
"Greatly desiring to see thee" (1: 4).
"This thou knowest" (1: 15).
"I know Whom I have believed" (1: 12).
"Knowing that they do gender strifes" (2: 23).
"Knowing of whom thou hast learned them" (3: 14).
"Thou hast known the holy scriptures" (3: 15).
The occurrences of ginosko in II Timothy are:--
"Thou knowest very well" (1: 18).
"The Lord knoweth them that are His" (2: 19).
"This know also" (3: 1).