Verse 7
7. Whereunto Namely, to the testimony.
A preacher, and an apostle Literally, a herald, and a sent one.
Truth… and lie not Alford puts it rather strongly, that this intense self-affirmation by Paul is an old man’s repetition, by habit, of the necessary self-assertions against his opponents used in younger days, as in 2 Corinthians 11:31, and Romans 9:1, and in Galatians throughout: “These had almost become stock phrases.” The very obvious reply is, that such phrases do not occur in epistles which did not face the impugners of his apostleship, as Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. What called them forth now was the appearance of a new set of impugners, by whom he was, doubtless, posted as a liar, and against whom he is flinging, through Timothy, these indignant self-testimonials. Teacher… in Christian faith and divine verity, or truth.
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