Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 1:8

8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord , nor of me his prisoner , but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel x, according to the power of God .

Either the Testimony which Christ himself, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good Confession; or that Testimony which thou art obliged to give, for the Ministers of Christ are to be witnesses unto him, Act. 1.8.

By this it appears that Paul was a Prisoner at Rome when he wrote this, he would not have Timothy ashamed to own him, and the Doctrine he had taught because of that circumstance.

That is, be thou content if God calls thee to it to take a share with me in those afflictions which I suffer for Preaching and professing the Gospel, or those afflictions are inseparable from the Gospel.

Through the power of God, for it is given to us in the behalf of Christ, as to beleive, so to suffer for Christs sake, Phil. 1.29.

Marginal references: Rom. 1.16.; 1 Tim. 2.6.; Phil. 1.7.