Second Timothy 4:1-22

II Timothy 4:1-4:

^4:1I throughly-witness before God and Christ Jesus the (one) being about to judge (people) living and dead-people (at) his shining-light and his kingdom – ^.2you must herald-forth the word, you must stand-on (it) well-timely (and) un-timely, you must refute, you must censure, you must encourage, in all patience and teaching; ^.3for there will be a time when they will not hold-themselves-up-with the teaching being sound but according to (their) own intense-yearnings they will heap onto themselves teachers being tickled-by the thing-heard (from those teachers) ^.4and indeed they will turn-away from the thing-heard of the truth but they will be turned-out onto the fables.

I throughly witness…. A 'witness' is someone who has information or knowledge of that-which he is attesting to, and can therefore confirm it on the strength of his own authority. Here the verb is "throughly-witness" – Paul fully affirms, testifies through the entire subject, thoroughly, making known the information and knowledge that he has regarding this subject.

I bear complete witness in the sight and presence of…

• God (the First, Superior or Ultimate One, the One Who has power, executes judgment, and emanates what He is, His power and light; He is the only true God) and
• Christ Jesus (the Anointed Jesus, the Messiah who has been resurrected and makes salvation available; he is God’s son and is second in command to God)
  • the one being about to judge people living and dead-people (Christ Jesus is on the point of making decisions, on behalf of God, on the people who are alive when that time comes and the people who will have already died by that time; dead-people have no life at all in them until they will be caused to rise from death at a future time to receive Christ's judgment) at
    • a)     his shining-light (his complete light being shone upon all, the illumination caused-by and emanating-from Christ Jesus, here referring to the time when he comes to be present to gather all of us holy-people/Christians together with him in the air and then we will be judged before his judgment-seat)
    • b)     and his kingdom (the kingly or royal dominion and government and rule and territory and power, etc, belonging to Christ Jesus when he comes on earth to gather the rest of his people: those still alive and the rest of the dead who will be raised, and all these will be judged by him) –

…you (Timothy) must herald-forth the word (proclaim the spoken-account of God’s inner thoughts),

…you must stand-on it well-timely and un-timely (stand taking your position upon/over the word during opportune periods, specific occasions, precise seasons that may be considered by yourself or other people to be good-timing, well-timed, and during times that may be considered to lack time, no-time, bad-timing),

…you must refute (prove another to be wrong, convict and convince of error),

…you must censure (inflict penalty or infringement, reprimand, judge by estimating the correct honor or value due in a specific situation which is punishment for the offence committed),

…you must encourage (exhort, call others beside you as a father and mother invites their children near them to help them to do what is right),…

• in all patience and teaching (within the sphere of action of every long-suffering, long-temperedness, long-forbearance toward/with others, and every authoritative instruction, doctrine, the contents of what is taught).

In truth, there will be a time (opportune period, specific occasion, precise season) when they will not hold themselves up with the teaching being sound (not hold themselves in an upright-position putting up with and enduring, sustaining themselves with the instruction, doctrine being healthy, in good health, well; this word ‘teaching’ includes the teaching itself and the action of teaching it).

But on the contrary, in accordance with their own intense-yearnings (their own strong-desires attached or fixed upon certain objects, in this context referring to things other-than God and the things of God, lusts) they will actively heap teachers onto themselves (one on-top of another on top of them pushing them down underneath) while they are being tickled by the thing-heard from those teachers (the listeners are feeling an exciting tingling sensation, being titillated while hearing what they teach, and crave to go to its source to stop it but at the same time wanting more and more of it).

And indeed they will turn away from the thing-heard of the truth (‘the truth’ refers to God’s essential reality, His inherent verity; they will turn away from the hearing, the report, what is spoken in order to be heard by them containing, consisting-of and which-is truth) but they will be turned out onto the fables (they will be caused to turn from where they should be, dislocated onto the legends, fictional stories, myths).

[Reference: Matthew 8:26, 12:16, 16:27, 17:18, 18:15, 24:30, 25:31; Acts 10:42, 17:31; Romans 14:10; I Corinthians 14:24, 15:51-57; II Corinthians 5:10; Ephesians 5:11-13, 6:10-18; Colossians 1:13; I Thessalonians 4:13-17; I Timothy 1:4, 6 and 10, 4:7, 5:15, 20 and 21, 6:3, 14, and 20; II Timothy 1:13, 3:16 and 17; Jude 1:9; Revelation chapters 19 and 20. See also the chart of events.]

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