2 Timothy 4:14

4. Reminiscences of his former trial, 2 Timothy 4:14-18.

14. Alexander the coppersmith Or rather, brazier. See note, Acts 19:33. He was probably a resident of Ephesus, but went to Rome as witness or prosecutor against Paul at his trial.

The Lord reward The best authorities read will reward; making the words a prediction rather than an imprecation. The position of both Alford and Fairbairn is, that the imprecative form presents no greater theological difficulty than the predictive. One of the most solemn, yet approvable, passages of the Apocalypse, Revelation 6:9-10, is imprecative. An inspired prayer may anticipate and invoke the just judgment that a holy God is about to execute. Yet upon such passages sceptical cavil will always be offered.