Teks -- 2 Timothy 2:6 (NET)

2:6 The farmer who works hard ought to have the first share of the crops.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman that laboureth

The husbandman that laboureth ( ton kopiōnta geōrgon ).

"The toiling tiller of the soil"(geōrgon , from gē and ergō , worker of the earth). See geōrgion (field) in 1Co 3:9 and also 1Co 9:7.

Robertson: 2Ti 2:6 - First

First ( prōton ).

As is natural and right.

Robertson: 2Ti 2:6 - To partake

To partake ( metalambanein ).

Old word as in Act 2:46 to share in. Paul elsewhere uses metechō as in 1Co 9:12.

Vincent: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman that laboreth

The husbandman that laboreth ( τὸν κοπιῶντα γεωργὸν )

The verb implies hard , wearisome toil. See on 1Th 1:3; see on 1Th 5:12. Γεωργός husbandman , only here in Pastorals. o P. See on Joh 15:1.

Vincent: 2Ti 2:6 - Must be first partaker

Must be first partaker ( δεῖ πρῶτον - μεταλαμβάνειν )

Better, Must be the first to partake . His is the first right to the fruits of his labor in the gospel. The writer seems to have in his eye 1Co 9:7, where there is a similar association of military service and farming to illustrate the principle that they who proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. Μεταλαμβάνειν to partake , o P, and only here in Pastorals. Paul uses μετέχειν . See 1Co 9:10, 1Co 9:12; 1Co 10:17, 1Co 10:21, 1Co 10:30.

Wesley: 2Ti 2:6

Unless he labour first, he will reap no fruit.

JFB: 2Ti 2:6 - must be first partaker

The right of first partaking of the fruits belongs to him who is laboring; do not thou, therefore, relax thy labors, as thou wouldest be foremost in partaking of the reward. CONYBEARE explains "first," before the idler.

Clarke: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman that laboureth

The husbandman that laboureth - That is: The husbandman must first till his ground before he can expect a crop; and he must till it according to the proper rules of agriculture, else he cannot have a crop. The combatant must fight and conquer, and fight according to the laws of the agones, before he can be crowned; so the Christian minister must labor in the spiritual vineyard, and labor too under the eye and according to the direction of his Master, before he can expect that crown of righteousness that fadeth not away.

Calvin: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman must labor before he receive the fruits

6.The husbandman must labor before he receive the fruits I am well aware that others render this passage differently; and I acknowledge that they translate, word for word, what Paul has written in Greek; but he who shall carefully examine the context will assent to my view. ¹⁶¹ Besides, the use of (κοπιῶντα) to labor instead of (κοπιᾷν) to labor, is a well-known Greek idiom; for Greek writers often make use of the participle in place of the infinitive. ¹⁶²

The meaning therefore, is, that husbandmen do not gather the fruit, till they have first toiled hard in the cultivation of the soil, by sowing and by other labors. And if husbandmen do not spare their toils, that one day they may obtain fruit, and if they patiently wait for the season of harvest; how much more unreasonable will it be for us to refuse the labors which Christ enjoins upon us, while he holds out so great a reward?

TSK: 2Ti 2:6 - husbandman // that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits

husbandman : Isa 28:24-26; Mat 9:37, Mat 9:38, Mat 20:1, Mat 21:33-41; Luk 10:2; Joh 4:35-38; 1Co 3:6-9, 1Co 9:7-11

that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits : or, labouring first, must be partaker of the fruits, 1Co 9:23; Heb 10:36

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Ti 2:6

As the apostle had before compared the minister of the gospel to a soldier, and from thence concluded his duty not to entangle himself unnecessarily in secular employments; and to those that exercised themselves in their public games, and from thence concluded the obligation upon him to keep to the Divine rule in the management of his office, and of himself under the opposition he should meet with; so here he compares him to a husbandman, (as Christ himself had done, Mat 13:1 , &c.), either to mind him of his duty, first to look to save his own soul, then the souls of others, or of his advantage, it being the privilege of a husbandman, being the proprietor of the fruits, (if he will), first to eat thereof, thereby intimating the privilege of those who turn many to righteousness, Dan 12:3 .

Haydock: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman who laboureth

The husbandman who laboureth [3] must first partake. Both the Latin and Greek texts admit of two interpretations: the sense may either be, that it is fitting the husbandman partake first and before others of the fruits of his labours, or that he must first labour and then partake. (Witham)

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Laborantem Agricolam, oportet primum de fructibus percipere, It has the same ambiguity in the Greek.

Gill: 2Ti 2:6 - The husbandman that laboureth // must be first partaker of the fruits

The husbandman that laboureth,.... In manuring his ground, in ploughing, in sowing, in weeding, in reaping, &c.

must be first partaker of the fruits; of his labour, before others; and the design may be to observe that the ministers of the word ought first to be partakers of the grace of God, the fruits of the Spirit, and of the Gospel, and rightly and spiritually understand it, before they preach it to others; or that such who labour in the word and doctrine, ought in the first place to be taken care of, and have a sufficient maintenance provided for them, 1Co 9:7 or that as they shall have in the first place some seals and fruits of their ministry, in the conversion of souls, so they shall shine in the kingdom of heaven as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever. Though the words may be rendered, and which seems more agreeable to the context, and to the apostle's argument, "the husbandman must first labour before he partakes of the fruits"; so a minister of the Gospel must first labour, and endure hardships in this life, before he sits down in the kingdom of heaven, and takes his rest, and enjoys the crown of glory, which fades not away, which the chief Shepherd shall give unto him.