Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 2:15

15 Study to shew thy self approved unto God , a workman that needeth not be ashamed , rightly dividing the word of truth .

Let it be thy study, not to please men, to get their humm and applause for speaking quaintly, learnedly, or smoothly, but to [illegible: 2 letters]prove thy self to God, who is thy Master in this work, and wh[illegible: 2 letters] thou oughtest to serve.

A workman that doth his work so well, and faithfully, that he need not be ashamed, whoever looketh and judgeth upon it.

[non-Latin text not transcribed] rightly cutting out, we translate it rightly dividing; it is not material, whether the Metaphor be drawn from the Priests right cutting out their sacrifices, so as all had their shares in them; or from Carpenters cutting out their Timber, cutting off the sappy part, and by a right line dividing the other parts; or from Cooks, or Carvers, or Parents rightly dividing a dish of meat among several Guests, or Children, or from those that use to cut out wayes, or from Husbandmen cutting out furrows, &c. The sense is, rightly handling the word of God, and giving to all their portion. For their notion who would make the sence of it, cuttig out a right way for [illegible: 1 letter]thers by thy example, because the word [non-Latin text not transcribed], sometimes signifies to cut a right way, it no way agreeth to the Text, for whatever the Verb signifies alone, he is meanly skild in the Greek, that knows not it cannot have that sense, being joyned, (as here) with [non-Latin text not transcribed], the word of Truth.