Teks -- 2 Timothy 4:8 (NET)

4:8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.

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Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth

Henceforth ( loipon ).

Accusative case, "for the rest."

Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - There is laid up for me

There is laid up for me ( apokeitai moi ).

Present passive of apokeimai , old verb, to be laid away. See note on Col 1:5 for the hope laid away. Paul’ s "crown of righteousness"(ho tēs dikaiosunēs stephanos , genitive of apposition, the crown that consists in righteousness and is also the reward for righteousness, the victor’ s crown as in 1Co 9:25 which see) "is laid away"for him.

Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - At that day

At that day ( en ekeinēi tēi hēmerāi ).

That great and blessed day (2Ti 1:12, 2Ti 1:18).

Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - The righteous judge

The righteous judge ( ho dikaios kritēs ).

"The just judge,"the umpire who makes no mistakes who judges us all (2Co 5:10).

Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - Shall give me

Shall give me ( apodōsei moi ).

Future active of apodidōmi . "Will give back"as in Rom 2:6 and in full.

Robertson: 2Ti 4:8 - But also to all them that have loved his appearing

But also to all them that have loved his appearing ( alla pāsin tois ēgapēkosin tēn epiphaneian autou ).

Dative case of the perfect active participle of agapaō , to love, who have loved and still love his second coming. Epiphaneia here can as in 2Ti 1:10 be interpreted of Christ’ s Incarnation.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth

Henceforth ( λοιπὸν )

Lit. as to what remains . Λοιπὸν or τὸ λοιπὸν either finally , as 2Co 13:11; or henceforth as here, Mar 14:41; 1Co 7:29, Heb 10:13 : or for the rest , besides , as 1Th 4:1 (note); 2Th 3:1.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - There is laid up

There is laid up ( ἀπόκειται )

Or laid away . In Pastorals only here. In Paul, see Col 1:5 (note). Luk 19:20 of the pound laid up in a napkin.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - A crown of righteousness

A crown of righteousness ( ὃ τῆς δικαιοσύνης στέφανος )

The phrase N.T.o . See on στεφανοῦται is crowned , 2Ti 2:5. Rend. the crown.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - Judge

Judge ( κριτής )

Comp. 2Ti 4:1. Mostly in Luke and Acts. o P. Only here in Pastorals. Applied to Christ, Act 10:42; Jam 5:9; to God, Heb 12:28; Jam 4:12.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - Shall give

Shall give ( ἀποδώσει )

Most frequent in Synoptic Gospels. It may mean to give over or away , as Mat 27:58; Act 5:8; Heb 12:16 : or to give back , recompose , as here, Mat 6:4, Mat 6:6, Mat 6:18; Rom 2:6.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - At that day

At that day ( ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ )

See on 2Ti 1:12.

Vincent: 2Ti 4:8 - That love his appearing

That love his appearing ( τοῖς ἠγαπηκόσι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν αὐτοῦ )

For love rend. have loved . Appearing , Christ's second coming: see on 1Ti 6:14; see on 2Th 2:8. The phrase N.T.o . Some have interpreted appearing as Christ's first coming into the world, as 2Ti 1:10; but the other sense is according to the analogy of 1Co 2:9; Phi 3:20; Heb 9:28.

Wesley: 2Ti 4:8 - The crown of that righteousness

Which God has imputed to me and wrought in me.

Wesley: 2Ti 4:8 - Will render to all

This increases the joy of Paul, and encourages Timotheus. Many of these St. Paul himself had gained.

Wesley: 2Ti 4:8 - That have loved his appearing

Which only a real Christian can do. I say a real Christian, to comply with the mode of the times: else they would not understand, although the word Christian necessarily implies whatsoever is holy, as God is holy. Strictly speaking, to join real or sincere to a word of so complete an import, is grievously to debase its noble signification, and is like adding long to eternity or wide to immensity.

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - a crown

Rather as Greek, "the crown." The "henceforth" marks the decisive moment; he looks to his state in a threefold aspect: (1) The past "I have fought"; (2) The immediate present; "there is laid up for me." (3) The future "the Lord will give in that day" [BENGEL].

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - crown

A crown, or garland, used to be bestowed at the Greek national games on the successful competitor in wrestling, running, &c. (compare 1Pe 5:4; Rev 2:10).

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - of righteousness

The reward is in recognition of righteousness wrought in Paul by God's Spirit; the crown is prepared for the righteous; but it is a crown which consists in righteousness. Righteousness will be its own reward (Rev 22:11). Compare Exo 39:30. A man is justified gratuitously by the merits of Christ through faith; and when he is so justified God accepts his works and honors them with a reward which is not their due, but is given of grace. "So great is God's goodness to men that He wills that their works should be merits, though they are merely His own gifts" [POPE CELESTINE I., Epistles, 12].

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - give

Greek, "shall award" in righteous requital as "Judge" (Act 17:31; 2Co 5:10; 2Th 1:6-7).

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - in that day

Not until His appearing (2Ti 1:12). The partakers of the first resurrection may receive a crown also at the last day, and obtain in that general assembly of all men, a new award of praise. The favorable sentence passed on the "brethren" of the Judge, who sit with Him on His throne, is in Mat 25:40, taken for granted as already awarded, when that affecting those who benefited them is being passed [BENGEL]. The former, the elect Church who reign with Christ in the millennium, are fewer than the latter. The righteous heavenly Judge stands in contrast to the unrighteous earthly judges who condemned Paul.

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - me

Individual appropriation. Greek, "not only to me."

JFB: 2Ti 4:8 - them that love

Greek, "have loved, and do love"; habitual love and desire for Christ's appearing, which presupposes faith (compare Heb 9:28). Compare the sad contrast, 2Ti 4:10, "having loved this present world."

Clarke: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown - This I can claim as my due; but the crown I expect is not one of fading leaves, but a crown of righteousness; the reward which God, in his kindness, has promised to them who are faithful to the grace he has bestowed upon them

Clarke: 2Ti 4:8 - The Lord, the righteous Judge

The Lord, the righteous Judge - He alludes here to the brabeus, or umpire in the Grecian games, whose office it was to declare the victor, and to give the crown

Clarke: 2Ti 4:8 - At that day

At that day - The day of judgment; the morning of the resurrection from the dead

Clarke: 2Ti 4:8 - Unto all them also that love his appearing

Unto all them also that love his appearing - All who live in expectation of the coming of Christ, who anticipate it with joyfulness, having buried the world and laid up all their hopes above. Here is a reward, but it is a reward not of debt but of grace; for it is by the grace of God that even an apostle is fitted for glory. And this reward is common to the faithful; it is given, not only to apostles, but to all them that love his appearing. This crown is laid up - it is in view, but not in possession. We must die first

I have several times noted the allusions of St. Paul to the Greek poets, and such as seemed to argue that he quoted immediately from them. There is a passage in the Alcestis of Euripides, in which the very expressions used here by the apostle are found, and spoken on the occasion of a wife laying down her life for her husband, when both his parents had refused to do it

Ουκ ηθελησας ουδ ’ ετολμησας θανειν

Του σου προ παιδος· αλλα την δ ’ ειασατ

Γυναικ ’ οθνειαν, ἡν εγω και μητερα

Πατερα τε γ ’ ενδικως αν ἡγοιμην μονην·

Και τοι καλον γ ’ αν τανδ ’ αγων ’ ηγωνισω,

Του σου προ παιδος κατθανων.

Alcest. v. 644

"Thou wouldst not, neither darest thou to die for thy son; but hast suffered this strange woman to do it, whom I justly esteem to be alone my father and mother: thou wouldst have fought a good fight hadst thou died for thy son.

See Sophocles and Aeschylus, quoted 1Ti 6:15

The καλος αγων, good fight, was used among the Greeks to express a contest of the most honorable kind, and in this sense the apostle uses it.

Calvin: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness // Which the Lord the righteous Judge will render to me // And not to me only // To all who love his coming

8.Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness Having boasted of having fought his fight and finished his course, and kept the faith, he now affirms that he has not labored in vain. Now it is possible to put forth strenuous exertion, and yet to be defrauded of the reward which is due. But Paul says that his reward is sure. This certainty arises from turning his eyes to the day of the resurrection, and this is what we also ought to do; for all around we see nothing but death, and therefore we ought not to keep our eye fixed on the outward appearance of the world, but, on the contrary, to hold out to our minds the coming of Christ. The consequences will be, that nothing can detract from our happiness.

Which the Lord the righteous Judge will render to me Because he mentions “the crown of righteousness” and “the righteous Judge,” and employs the word “render,” the Papists endeavor, by means of this passage, to build up the merits of works in opposition to the grace of God. But their reasoning is absurd. Justification by free grace, which is bestowed on us through faith, is not at variance within the rewarding of works, but, on the contrary, those two statements perfectly agree, that a man is justified freely through the grace of Christ, and yet that God will render to him the reward of works; for as soon as God has received us into favor, he likewise accepts our works, so as even to deign to give them a reward, though it is not due to them.

Here two blunders are committed by the Papists; first, in arguing that we deserve something from God, because we do well by virtue of our freewill; and secondly, in holding that God is bound to us, as if our salvation proceeded from anything else than from his grace. But it does not follow that God owes anything to us, because he renders righteously what he renders; for he is righteous even in those acts of kindness which are of free grace. And he “renders the reward” which he has promised, not because we take the lead by any act of obedience, but because, in the same course of liberality in which he has begun to act toward us, he follows up his former gifts by those which are afterwards bestowed. In vain, therefore, and to no purpose, do the Papists labor to prove from this, that good works proceed from the power of freewill; because there is no absurdity in saying that God crowns in us his own gifts. Not less absurdly and foolishly do they endeavor, by means of this passage, to destroy the righteousness of faith; since the goodness of God — by which he graciously embraces a man, not imputing to him his sins — is not inconsistent with that rewarding of works which he will render by the same kindness with which he made the promise. ¹⁹⁹

And not to me only That all the rest of the believers might fight courageously along with him, he invites them to a participation of the crown; for his unshaken steadfastness could not have served for an example to us, if the same hope of obtaining the crown had not been held out to us.

To all who love his coming ²⁰⁰ This is a singular mark which he employs in describing believers. And, indeed, wherever faith is strong, it will not permit their minds to fall asleep in this world, but will elevate them to the hope of the last resurrection. His meaning therefore is, that all who are so much devoted to the world, and who love so much this fleeting life, as not to care about the coming of Christ, and not to be moved by any desire of it, deprive themselves of immortal glory. Woe to our stupidity, therefore, which exercises such power over us, that we never think seriously about the coming of Christ, to which we ought to give our whole attention. Besides, he excludes from the number of believers those in whom the coming of Christ produces terror and alarm; for it cannot be loved unless it be regarded as pleasant and delightful.

Defender: 2Ti 4:8 - crown of righteousness

This crown symbolizes rewards for faithful service, which Christ will award at His judgment seat (2Co 5:10; 1Co 3:14). These types of crowns include: "an incorruptible [crown]" (1Co 9:25), the "crown of rejoicing" (1Th 2:19), "the crown of life" (Jam 1:12; Rev 2:10), and "a crown of glory" (1Pe 5:4).

Defender: 2Ti 4:8 - righteous judge

The "Judge of all the earth" will "do right" (Gen 18:25).

Defender: 2Ti 4:8 - love his appearing

Paul had loved "his appearing" ever since the conversion. Earlier in his ministry he had thought he would be among those still living when Christ returned (1Th 4:17). As time went on, he realized he must die before that day, but he knew that for the believer, "to die is gain" (Phi 1:21). As he wrote this last epistle, he knew that "the time of my departure is at hand" (2Ti 4:6)."

TSK: 2Ti 4:8 - there // a crown // the righteous // at that // that love

there : Psa 31:19; Mat 6:19, Mat 6:20; Col 1:5; 1Ti 6:19

a crown : 2Ti 2:5; Pro 4:9; 1Co 9:25; Jam 1:12; 1Pe 5:4; Rev 2:10, Rev 4:4, Rev 4:10

the righteous : 2Ti 4:1; Gen 18:25; Psa 7:11; Rom 2:5; 2Th 1:5, 2Th 1:6; Rev 19:11

at that : 2Ti 1:12, 2Ti 1:18; Mal 3:17; Mat 7:22, Mat 24:36; Luk 10:12; 1Th 5:4

that love : Rom 8:23; 1Co 2:9; 2Co 5:2; 1Th 1:10; Tit 2:13; Heb 9:28; Rev 1:7; Rev 22:20

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Poole: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me // A crown // Of righteousness // Which the Lord, the righteous judge // And not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing

Henceforth there is laid up for me as to what remains for me, (so the word loipon signifies, not henceforth, as we translate it), there is prepared, and in safe keeping for me, Col 1:5 ; or, there is appointed for me: see Heb 9:27 .

A crown another kind of crown than what the conquerors used to have in the Grecian games; a high and great reward, a glory with which my whole man shall be encompassed, as a man’ s head is with a crown.

Of righteousness the purchase of Christ’ s righteousness, and an ample reward of mine also, the giving out of which also will be the effect of God’ s truth and justice, 1Jo 1:9 .

Which the Lord, the righteous judge and Jesus Christ, who in this shall show himself a righteous judge,

shall give it me of his free mercy, for all I have done hath not merited it, at that day at the day of judgment; my soul shall have it at my dissolution, my whole man in the resurrection.

And not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing nor is this crown my particular reward, but if any persons so lead their lives in this world, as that they can desire and be pleased with the thoughts and hopes of the second coming of Christ to judgment, Christ will give them also the same reward.

Haydock: 2Ti 4:8 - A crown of justice, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me

A crown of justice, which the Lord, the just judge, will render to me. These words confirm the Catholic doctrine, that good works performed with the assistance of God's grace, deserve and are meritorious of a reward in heaven: it is what is signified, 1. by a crown of justice, 2. from a just judge, 3. which he will render or give as a reward. Yet we own with St. Augustine that we have no merit, but what is also a gift of God from his grace and mercy, and grounded on his promises. (Witham) ---

"A crown of justice ," which the Protestant translate, of righteousness; but let us see how the learned St. Augustine, 1400 years ago, expounds the apostle's meaning: "How should he repay as a just judge, unless he had first given as a merciful Father?" (De grat. et lib. arb. chap. vi.) See Hebrews vi. 10. God is not unjust, that he should forget your works; the the Protestants change into, God is not unrighteous.

Gill: 2Ti 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness // for me // which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day // at that day // and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,.... The happiness of the future state of the saints is signified by a crown, on account of the glory and excellency of it; and in perfect agreement with the character of the saints, as kings; and who are raised to sit among princes, and to inherit the throne of glory, and have a kingdom prepared for them; and this is called a crown "of righteousness", because it comes through the righteousness of Christ; it is that which gives a right unto it, and without which it cannot be enjoyed; and because it is obtained and possessed in a righteous way, and not by force and usurpation, as crowns sometimes are: it is God the Father's free gift unto his children, what they are born heirs unto, and have a meetness for, through regenerating and sanctifying grace, and have a legal title to it through the righteousness of Christ. Moreover, this may be expressive of the perfect holiness and righteousness of the heavenly state, and of the saints in it, wherein will dwell none but righteous persons, and who will be entirely without sin. And this happiness, signified by a crown, is "laid up"; in the covenant of grace for the saints, which is ordered in all things and sure; and in Christ, in whose hands their persons are, and their grace is, and with him also is their life of glory hid and secured: and this also is laid up in heaven, and reserved there, and that

for me, and thee; for particular persons, for all the vessels of mercy, for all that are chosen in Christ Jesus, and redeemed by his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit;

which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day. By the Lord is meant the Lord Jesus Christ; as is evident from his character, as a Judge, for the Father judgeth no man; and from mention being made hereafter of his appearing: Christ is ordained Judge of quick and dead, for which he is abundantly qualified, and a "righteous" one he will be; he is righteous as God, and as man, and as Mediator, in the discharge of all his offices, and so he will be as a Judge, in the administration of that office; righteousness will be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins; and from Christ, under this character, the apostle expected to receive all his future glory and happiness; and that both in a way of gift, as a free grace gift from him, and through him, and in a way of righteousness; and this seems to be a Jewish way of speaking. One of the Septuagint interpreters, whom Ptolomy king of Egypt sent for from Judea, to translate the law of Moses into Greek, in answer to a question put to him by the king, uses this phrase of στεφανος δικαιοσυνης, "a crown of righteousness"; and which he represents as the gift of God ^z:

at that day; either at the day of death, the time of his dissolution, which was at hand; or at the day of the resurrection, and of the last judgment, when Christ will appear under the above character: and the apostle further observes, to the comfort and encouragement of Timothy, and others, that this happiness was not intended and prepared for himself only, but for others:

and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing; that is, his appearing at his second coming; which is to be loved, and so looked for by the saints, not only because it will be glorious in itself, in its attendants and consequences, but will be of great advantage to the saints; Christ will appear unto salvation to them, and so to their joy; they will appear with him in glory, and be like him, and enjoy the everlasting vision of him. The devils believe this appearance of Christ, but tremble at it; wicked men will behold him, and fear; saints know, believe, and love both Christ and his appearing; and such will wear that crown: the Ethiopic version renders it, "who love him at his coming"; all that love him now, will love him then.