| II Timothy 4:5
| But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.
| Be thou vigilant, etc. It may either be expounded, watch in all things; or, take pains in all things. The latter seems the true construction. (Witham) --- An evangelist; a diligent preacher of the gospel. (Challoner) --- Fulfil thy ministry.{ Ver. 5. Ministerium tuum imple, plerophoreson. St. Chrysostom, (log. th. p. 371.) toutesti, pleroson; and so again, (ver. 17) praedicatio impleatur, plerophorethe, toutesti, says St. Chrysostom, p. 376, plerothe. St. Chrysostom doubtless understood Greek as well as Erasmus or Mr. Legh, who therefore need not have accused the Latin interpreter as if he knew not Greek, so as to distinguish betwixt plerophorein and pleroun.|} So even Dr. Wells, in his amendments to the Protestant translation, which hath, make full proof of thy ministry. See Luke 1:1. See also St. Chrysostom on this place. --- Be sober. There is nothing for this in the Greek, nor in St. Chrysostom. The Latin interpreter seems to have added it, as being contained in the other Greek words in this verse. (Witham)
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