Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Timothy 2:21
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, [and] prepared unto every good work.
21. If a man therefore purge himself from these ] That is, as Bengel puts it, ‘if any one shall by purifying himself have gone out of their number.’ The compound verb ‘purge out’ only occurs besides in 1Co 5:7 where the preposition gives the force ‘purge out from your houses the old leaven.’ Wordsworth forcibly notes here; ‘a man may at one time of his life be numbered among vessels to dishonour, and yet may become a vessel to honour, by cleansing himself out from their number and condition. Mark this assertion of Free Will.’ And again, ‘a Christian man may not go out of the great house which is the Visible Church of God: he cannot separate himself wholly from sinners, but he must cleanse himself from them as sinners; that is, he must not communicate with them in their sins.’
sanctified ] Or perhaps better ‘purified.’ ‘Sanctified’ belongs to metaphor, the implied Christian life and service; but in form the sentence remains a simile to the end. Hence R.V. rightly renders the master’s use, i.e. the master of the house, not with some printed copies of A.V. ‘the Master’s,’ which would imply an immediate reference to God. ‘Meet for use’ is the same word as in 2Ti 4:11 ‘serviceable,’ and in Phm 1:11, where Onesimus formerly ‘unprofitable’ is ‘now profitable.’
prepared ] This word and ‘sanctified’ are both perfect passive participles, and are more expressive than our English can shew of the resulting final state reached. See note on 2Ti 2:26.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour – If a man cleanse or purify himself; compare the notes on Joh 15:2. The word these refers, here, to the persons represented by the vessels of wood and of earth – the vessels made to dishonor, as mentioned in the previous verse 2Ti 2:20. The idea is, that if one would preserve himself from the corrupting influence of such men, he would be fitted to be a vessel of honor, or to be employed in the most useful and honorable service in the cause of his Master. On the word vessel, see the notes at Act 9:15.
And meet for the masters use – Suitable to be employed by the Lord Jesus in promoting his work on earth.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 21. If a man therefore purge himself from these] He that takes heed to his ways and to his doctrines, and walks with God, will separate himself, not only from all false doctrine, but from all wicked men, and thus be sanctified and proper to be employed by the Master in every good word and work. The apostle has not made the application of these different similes, and it is very difficult to tell what he means.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
If a man therefore purge himself from these; from these wicked men that subvert the faith of others, or from their wicked opinions and courses.
He shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the masters use; God will honour him; and he will by it be set apart, and made fit for Christs use in his church.
And prepared unto every good work; and made fit for every good work; which men are not, while they are either tainted with pernicious, damnable errors relating to the doctrine of faith, or the companions of those fools.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. If a man . . . purge himselffrom theseThe Greek expresses “If one (forexample, thou, Timothy) purify himself (so as to separate) fromamong these” (vessels unto dishonor).
sanctifiedset apart aswholly consecrated to the Lord.
and meetSome oldestmanuscripts omit “and.”
the master’stheLord’s. Paul himself was such a vessel: once one among those ofearth, but afterwards he became by grace one of gold.
prepared unto every goodwork (2Ti 3:17; Tit 3:1).Contrast Tit 1:16.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
If a man therefore purge himself from these,…. That is, if a man clears himself, and keeps himself clear from such men as Hymenaeus and Philetus, who are comparable to wooden and earthen vessels, and are dishonourable ones; if he shuns their defiling company, and polluting principles; if he keeps clear of their heresies, and is not carried away with the errors of these wicked men, and is not drawn aside by them into immoral practices, but stands fast in the faith, and departs from iniquity:
he shall be a vessel unto honour; he will be made manifest, and appear to be a vessel chosen to honour; and will be an honourable member of the church here, and will be honoured by Christ hereafter:
sanctified: he will appear to be one that is set apart by God the Father, and whose sins are purged away by the blood of Christ, and who is sanctified internally by the Spirit of God; for external holiness springs from internal holiness, and is, an evidence of it:
and meet for the master’s use: the use and service of Christ, who is the master of the house; either for the ministry of the word, the administration of ordinances, or for some service or another, which he calls him to, and employs him in.
And prepared unto every good work; which an unregenerate man is not; he is to every good work reprobate; he is not capable of performing good works; he is not prepared for them, nor ready at them; but a true believer, one that is regenerated, and sanctified by the Spirit of God, he is created in Christ Jesus unto good works; and has in the performing of them right principles, aims, and ends, as well as a supply of grace, by which he is enabled to do them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
If a man purge himself ( ). Paul drops the metaphor of the house and takes up the individual as one of the “vessels.” Condition of third class with first aorist active subjunctive of , old verb, to cleanse out, in LXX, in N.T. only here and 1Co 5:7.
From these ( ). From the vessels for dishonour of verse 20.
Sanctified (). Perfect passive participle of , for which verb see 1Co 6:11.
Meet for the master’s use ( ). Dative case (for which word see 1Ti 6:1) with , neuter singular like agreeing with . Old verbal adjective ( and , to use well), useful or usable for the master. In N.T. only here and 4:11. See in Phm 11.
Prepared (). Perfect passive participle of , in a state of readiness, old and common word, elsewhere by Paul only 1Co 2:9 (LXX).
Fuente: Robertson’s Word Pictures in the New Testament
Purge [] . Only here and 1Co 5:7. The meaning is, separate himself from communion with.
From these [ ] . From such persons as are described as; ‘vessels “unto dishonor.” Some attempt to relieve the awkwardness of this figure by referring these to persons mentioned in vv. 16, 17. Unto honor [ ] . Const. with vessel, not with sanctified. Sanctified [] . Comp. 1Ti 4:5. Set al art to noble and holy uses, as belonging to God. See on aJgiasmov sanctification, Rom 6:19. For agiov holy, see on 1Ti 5:10.
Meet [] . From euj well and crasqai to use. Hence, easy to make use of, useful. The A. V. meet, is fit, suitable. Rend. serviceable. In contrast with to no profit, verse 14. See Phl 1:11, where the contrast with acrhstov useless is brought out. Only here, chapter 2Ti 4:11, Phl 1:11.
For the master’s use [ ] . Use is superfluous. Rend. for the master. The master of the household. See on 1Ti 6:1.
Prepared [] . In Paul, 1Co 2:9; Phl 1:22. Only here in Pastorals. Comp. Tit 3:1.
Every good work. The phrase in Paul, 2Co 9:8; Col 1:10; 2Th 2:17. In Pastorals, 1Ti 5:10; 2Ti 3:17; Tit 1:16; Tit 3:1.
Fuente: Vincent’s Word Studies in the New Testament
1) “If a man therefore purge himself from these” (ean oun tis ekkathare heauton apo touton) “If therefore anyone cleanses himself from these (the latter) vessels of dishonor,” type of misconduct, dishonorable behavior, by keeping the body under subjection, 1Co 9:26-27; 2Co 6:14-17.
2) “He shall be a vessel unto honour” (estai skeuos eis timen) “He will be a vessel to honor (the Lord);” Paul, once an earthen vessel, as a Pharisee, became a golden vessel as a Christian, to honor God; the past he counted as but dross; Read Php_3:4-14; Rom 12:1-2.
3) “Sanctified, and meet for the master’s use” (hegiasmenon euchreston to despote) “Having been sanctified by his own volition or choosing, suitable (in conduct) for the master’s service,” 1Co 6:19-20; 2Pe 1:4-11.
4) “And prepared unto every good work” (eis pan ergon agathon hetoimasmenon) “Having been prepared With reference to every (kind of) good work,” 2Ti 3:17; To be “fitted,” prepared for every good work, one must live a life of sanctification from evil to good, Jas 1:22.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
21 If any man shall cleanse himself from these If the reprobate are “vessels for dishonor,” they have that dishonor confined to themselves, but they do not disfigure the house, or bring any disgrace on the head of the family, who, while he has a variety of articles of furniture, appropriates each vessel to its proper use. But let us learn, by their example, to apply them to better and worthier uses; for in the reprobate, as in mirrors, we perceive how detestable is the condition of man, if he do not sincerely promote the glory of God. Such examples, therefore, afford to us good ground for exhortation to devote ourselves to a holy and blameless life.
There are many who misapply this passage, for the sake of proving that what Paul elsewhere (Rom 9:16) declares to belong “to God that sheweth mercy,” is actually within the power of “him that willeth and him that runneth.” This is exceedingly frivolous; for Paul does not here argue about the election of men, in order to shew what is the cause of it, as he does in the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans (Rom 9:0); but only means that we are unlike wicked men, whom we perceive to have been born to their perdition. It is consequently foolish to draw an inference from these words, about the question whether it is in a man’s power to place himself in the number of the children of God, and to be the author of his own adoption. That is not the present question. Let this short warning suffice against those who bid a man cause himself to be predestinated; as if Paul enjoined men to do what they must have done before they were born, and even before the foundations of the world were laid.
Others, who infer from these words that free-will is sufficient for preparing a man, that he may be fit and qualified for obeying God, do not at first sight appear to be so absurd as the former, yet there is no solidity in what they advance. The Apostle enjoins that men who desire to consecrate themselves to the Lord cleanse themselves from the pollution of wicked men; and throughout the Scriptures God gives the same injunction; for we find nothing here but what we have seen in many passages of Paul’s writings, and especially in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians,
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Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.” (178)
Beyond all controversy, we are called to holiness. But the question about the calling and duty of Christians is totally different from the question about their power or ability. We do not deny that it is demanded from believers that they purify themselves; but elsewhere the Lord declares that this is their duty, while he promises by Ezekiel that he will send
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clean waters, that we may be cleansed.” (Eze 36:25.)
Wherefore we ought to supplicate the Lord to cleanse us, instead of vainly trying our strength in this matter without his assistance.
A vessel sanctified for honor means, set apart for honorable and magnificent purposes. In like manner, what is useful to the head of the family is put for that which is applied to agreeable purposes. He afterwards explains the metaphor, when he adds, that we must be prepared for every good work. Away with the wild language of fanatics, “I will contribute to the glory of God, as Pharaoh did; for is it not all one, provided that God be glorified?” For here God explicitly states in what manner he wishes us to serve him, that is, by a religious and holy life.
(178) This quotation is taken from Isa 52:11, but the passage to which our author, quoting from memory, makes reference, is 2Co 6:17, where the words of Isaiah have undergone considerable variation See Calvin’s Com. On Corinthians, vol. 2, p. 261. — Ed.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(21) If a man therefore purge himself from these.Again the reference is general, but there was a special thought for Timothy when St. Paul wrote this. If he would separate from all that was evil in his Church at Ephesus, then would he indeed be one of those golden vessels unto honour. The image of the great house, and its many and varied vessels, though still not quite lost sight of, is passing out of sight. This verse changes into a note of direct exhortation. The good and faithful must separate themselves from the evil and faithless. The thought of those deniers of the resurrection of the body was uppermost in St. Pauls mind. There must, as it has been well said, be no communion on the part of Gods servants with impugners of fundamentals. It was imperatively necessary for Timothyand, by implication, for all members of Christs Churchif they aimed at becoming vessels for honour in the great Temple, to break off from all Church fellowship, from all intimate friendship, with those above referred to under the image of wooden or earthen vessels.
He shall be a vessel unto honour.Chrysostoms note upon these words is somewhat remarkable. He points out the possibility of the vessel for dishonour becoming a vessel for honour, and the reverse; and refers to St. Paul, once an earthen vessel, who became a vessel of gold, and to the traitor Judas, who, on the other hand, from being a vessel of gold became an earthen vessel.
Meet for the masters use.Or, useful for the master (of the house). Useful, as the next sentence shows us, through those good works by means of which others needs are ministered to, and the salvation of others is furthered, and the glory of God is increased.
Prepared unto every good work.Preparedthat is, ready to take advantage of any opportunity which may offer itself to do a generous, noble action. So, too, Chrysostom, who would have the vessel unto honour ready for every emergency which would enhance the glory of the Lordready even for death, or (any painful) witness.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
21. Purge himself (in obedience to the second motto in 2Ti 2:19) from these modern Korahites, the vessels of dishonour. The simile is carried out with much completeness. The cleaned dish is ready for all cleanly use by the owner.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘If a man therefore purge himself from these, he will be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.’
Each man must choose, therefore, whether he will be a vessel of gold and silver, or whether he will be one of wood and earthenware, whether he will be more honourable to God or less honourable (compare 1Co 3:12; 1Co 3:15). And in order to be the former he must purge himself ‘from these’. ‘From these’ may simply mean that by his response to God he will purge himself from being one of the vessels made of wood and earthenware, that is, he will by his godly behaviour separate himself from being among the wood and earthenware vessels. Alternately ‘from these’ may refer to the unrighteousness from which the one who calls on the Name of the Lord has to depart (2Ti 2:19), seen as being in the plural, with the plural pronoun signifying ‘acts of unrighteousness’, or it may refer to shunning profane babblings and the false prophets mentioned in 2Ti 2:16-18. For the Christian is not only to seek positive teaching, but must beware of negative teaching, and especially of getting involved above their heads with the teaching of clever men who manipulate the truth. Compare 1Co 5:7 where the same word purging involves the removal of all that is sinful, including sinful men. We must therefore rid ourselves of, and flee from, all wrong behaviour and all false teaching.
‘He will be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.’ This is to be the aim of every Christian, to be a vessel whose use is worthy of all honour, and which is valued by all. He is to be ‘sanctified’, that is, his life should be set apart wholly to the service of God, leaving behind all mundane things, and allowing the God of peace to set him apart to Himself wholly, in spirit, soul and body, so that they may preserved entire, without blame, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1Th 5:23). He is to be free from all impurity, possessing his vessel in all sanctification and honour. (1Th 4:3-4). He is to look to Jesus Christ to fulfil His sanctifying work within him (Eph 5:26). He is to be sanctified through His truth (Joh 17:17). Note the threefold aspects of this continuing sanctification. It requires a dedicated and separated heart, it involves looking off to Jesus Christ to do His work within, and it involves knowing and understanding the truth from His word.
‘Meet for the Master’s use.’ His aim is to be that he might be fully satisfactory for the Master to use, both as a result of turning from all impurity and sin, and as a result of a positive response to Him and His word. In the words of Paul in Rom 12:1-2, he is to present his body to Christ as ‘a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God’ and is not to be ‘fashioned according to this world’ but is to be ‘transformed by the renewing of his mind’ that he may ‘prove what is the good, acceptable and perfect will of God’.
The word for ‘use’ (euchrestos) is very much a Pauline word, being found elsewhere only in 2Ti 4:11; Phm 1:11.
‘Prepared unto every good work.’ This is the theme of this section, compare 2Ti 3:17. Those who would serve God must allow themselves to be prepared in every way, and should seek God to that end. For God’s eternal purpose for them includes their fulfilling His ‘good work’ on earth.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
2Ti 2:21. If a man therefore purge himself from these, &c. The meaning seems to be, that Timothy and other Christians were carefully to avoid the faults of the Judaizers, keeping themselves pure and clean from their corrupt doctrines and practices, and exerting themselves to promote the true Gospel of Christ; and then, instead of being vessels merely useful in some capacity, they would be vessels unto honour, fitted for the use of the master of the family, the greatest and most honourable person there. God is the great Master of this large house, 2Ti 2:20 and good men are like the consecrated vessels in the temple, fitted for his use and service.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
2Ti 2:21 . Without explaining the figure, the apostle carries it on, but in such a way as to show to the members of the church how each one may become a vessel to honour.
] , according to classic Greek (also 1Co 5:7 ), is an intensive form of (N. T. ). Chrysostom rightly says: , , , . The opinion (formerly expressed in this commentary) was incorrect, that only foreshadows the . The translation is inaccurate: “if one keeps himself pure” (Heydenreich, equivalent to , ); Luther rightly: “purifies himself.” The word indicates the departure from impure companionship; comp. 2Ti 2:19 , , and 1Ti 6:5 (according to Rec. ), . [40] Wiesinger makes the construction pregnant: “separate oneself from these by self-purification;” it is more correct, however, to regard the separation itself as the purification.
] cannot according to the context be taken as a collective neuter: “from such things,” , , , or even , 2Ti 2:16 ; it refers rather to . Luther: “from such people;” comp. the passage quoted, 1Ti 6:5 . Hofmann is altogether mistaken in his curious idea that means “from that time forward,” and is to be connected with what follows. This reference is nowhere in the N. T. expressed by (comp. Mat 26:29 : ); besides, this more precise definition of is quite superfluous, whereas without more precise definition is too general.
, ] Lachmann has wrongly deleted the comma between . and . does not depend on ., but . . forms here, like in 2Ti 2:20 , one idea to which various attributes, being the first, are added in order to describe the nature of such a . .
] is not = , Act 9:15 (Heydenreich), but: “ sanctified ;” as belonging to the Lord. = “ good for using ;” , “ the master of the house ;” (comp. Rev 9:7 ), “ prepared for every good work .” While all expositors join with , Hofmann prefers to refer it to what follows, without giving any reason for so doing. Elsewhere in the N. T. occurs only in connection with the dative of more precise definition (2Ti 4:11 ; Phm 1:11 ).
[40] Bengel remarks: Activum cum pronomine reciproco indicat liberrimam facultatem fidelium. Beza seeks, on the other hand, to save the doctrine of predestination: Volumus et efficimus, sed per eum qui gratis et in solidum efficit in nobis bonam et efficacem voluntatem, turn quod ad , tum quod ad attinet.
Fuente: Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer’s New Testament Commentary
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
Ver. 21. Purge himself from these ] From these seducers or arch-heretics, those vessels of dishonour, whose doctrine defileth worse than any kitchen stuff or leprosy.
He shall be a vessel, &c. ] You know (said John Careless, the martyr, in a letter to Mr Philpot) that the vessel before it be made bright is soiled with oil and many other things, that it may scour the better. Oh, happy be you that you be now in this scouring house; for shortly you shall be set upon the celestial shelf as bright as angels, &c.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
21 .] Here the thing signified is mingled with the similitude: the voluntary act described belonging, not to the vessels, but to the members of the church who are designated by them. If then ( deduces a consequence from the similitude: q. d. ‘his positis’) any man (member of the church) shall have purified himself (not as Chrys., : but as Bengel, ‘purgando sese ex ierit de numero horum:’ the corresponds to the below, and I have attempted to give that in the following) from among these (viz. the latter mentioned vessels in each parallel; but more especially the , from what follows), he shall be a vessel for honour (Chrys. remarks: . (?); , . , . (?) , ), hallowed (not to be joined, as Calv. and Lachmann, who expunges the comma after , with , seeing that stands absolutely in the former verse. (reff.) is a favourite word with our Apostle to describe the saints of God), useful (see instances of the meaning of this epithet in the two N. T. reff.) for the master (of the house), prepared for every good work ( , , . , , , . Chrys.).
Fuente: Henry Alford’s Greek Testament
2Ti 2:21 . St. Paul drops the metaphor. The general meaning is clear enough, that a man may become “heaven’s consummate cup,” (Act 9:15 ), if he “mistake not his end, to slake the thirst of God”. When we endue the vessels with consciousness, it is seen that they may “rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things”. The has been, it is implied, among the “vessels unto dishonour”. “Paul was an earthen vessel, and became a golden one. Judas was a golden vessel, and became an earthen one” (Chrys.). Bengel supposes that the is an exhortation to Timothy himself. This is suggested in R.V. of 2Ti 2:22 , “But flee,” etc. The reference in is not quite clear. It is best perhaps to explain it of the false teachers themselves, “vessels unto dishonour,” rather than of their teaching or immoral characteristics, though of course this is implied. The thoroughness of the separation from the corrupting environment of evil company is expressed by the – and . Where occurs again, 1Co 5:7 , the metaphor (leaven) also refers to the removal of a corrupting personal element. There the person is to be expelled; here the persons are to be forsaken. is the equivalent in actual experience of the simile , as is of . Compare 1Co 6:11 , “And such were some of you: but ye were washed [lit. washed yourselves], but ye were sanctified” ( ).
: “Even though he do not do it, he is fit for it, and has a capacity for it” (Chrys.). Cf. Eph 2:10 , , and reff.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
purge = thoroughly purge. Greek ekkathairo. See 1Co 5:7,
unto. App-104.
meet = useful or profitable. Greek. euchrestos, Only here, 2Ti 4:11. Php 1:11.
Master’s. App-98.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
21.] Here the thing signified is mingled with the similitude: the voluntary act described belonging, not to the vessels, but to the members of the church who are designated by them. If then ( deduces a consequence from the similitude: q. d. his positis) any man (member of the church) shall have purified himself (not as Chrys., : but as Bengel, purgando sese exierit de numero horum: the corresponds to the below, and I have attempted to give that in the following) from among these (viz. the latter mentioned vessels in each parallel; but more especially the , from what follows), he shall be a vessel for honour (Chrys. remarks: . (?); , . , . (?) , ), hallowed (not to be joined, as Calv. and Lachmann, who expunges the comma after ,-with , seeing that stands absolutely in the former verse. (reff.) is a favourite word with our Apostle to describe the saints of God), useful (see instances of the meaning of this epithet in the two N. T. reff.) for the master (of the house), prepared for every good work ( , , . , , , . Chrys.).
Fuente: The Greek Testament
2Ti 2:21. , if a man therefore) for example, Timothy.- ) by purging himself, shall go forth from the number of these vessels, to dishonour. The active voice with the reciprocal pronoun indicates the utmost freedom of power on the part of believers.-, sanctified) The peculiar property of God, and entirely devoted to Him.-, and) -, for honour-prepared, forms four clauses; of which the first is explained by the second, the third by the fourth. Therefore and connects these two pairs. Comp. 2Ti 3:17, -.- , truly-serviceable to the Master) viz. God, whose house Paul in his epistles to Timothy calls the church.- , every good work) ch. 2Ti 3:17; Tit 1:16.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
2Ti 2:21
If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor,-God uses only such as are fitted for his use. The reason God does not use more persons, or use them more effectively, is because they are unfitted for his use.
sanctified, meet for the masters use, prepared unto every good work.-When fitted for his use, he is prepared for every good work. Mans duty is to so live as to fit himself for the service of God, and then God will direct him and use him.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
purge: Psa 119:9, Isa 1:25, Isa 52:11, Jer 15:19, Mal 3:3, 1Co 5:7, 2Co 7:1, 1Pe 1:22, 1Jo 3:3
a vessel: 2Ti 2:20, 1Pe 1:7
meet: Act 9:15
prepared: 2Ti 3:17, Eph 2:10, Tit 3:1, Tit 3:8, Tit 3:14
Reciprocal: 1Sa 21:5 – the vessels Pro 25:4 – General Isa 22:24 – vessels of small Jer 22:28 – a despised Jer 48:38 – broken Hos 8:8 – a vessel Mat 26:10 – a good Mar 14:6 – a good Luk 1:17 – to make Luk 6:42 – see Rom 9:21 – one vessel Rom 9:23 – he had afore 1Th 4:4 – his 1Ti 5:10 – if she have diligently 2Ti 4:2 – all
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2Ti 2:21. If a man purge himself from these. Better, cleanse. The pronoun, on the view just given, refers to the concrete acts implied in the iniquity of 2Ti 2:19.
Sanctified. In the liturgical rather than the ethical sense, consecrated or hallowed.
Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament
Verse 21
Purge himself from these; from the errors and follies above named.
Fuente: Abbott’s Illustrated New Testament
2:21 If a man therefore {h} purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, [and] prepared unto every good work.
(h) By these words is meant the execution of the matter, and not the cause: for in that we purge ourselves, it is not to be attributed to any free will that is in us, but to God, who freely and wholly works in us, a good and an effectual will.