Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 2 Timothy 2:4
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2 Timothy2:4
4. "No one while serving as a soldier."
the affairs of (this) life--"the businesses of life" [Alford]; mercantile, or other than military.
him who hath chosen him--the general who at the first enlisted him as a soldier. Paul himself worked at tent-making (Ac 18:3). Therefore what is prohibited here is, not all other save religious occupation, but the becoming entangled, or over-engrossed therewith.
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