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Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 2:8

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2 Timothy2:8

8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel .

The Apostle passeth from his former Discourse, wherein he had armed Timothy against the afflictions of the Gospel, to a Discourse about the Doctrine of the Gospel, and here mentioneth two principal heads of that Doctrine. The Incarnation of Christ and his Resurrection, which he instanceth in, as more particularly to be remembred and pressed upon Christians in regard they were those two points of the Gospel which were either at that time denyed, as that of the incarnation was by the Jews, or he knew would first be opposed, and the latter that, which declared Christ to be the Son of God with power, Rom. 1.4. and upon a faith in which Christians Salvation, and Consolation much depended, Rom. 4.25. and 8.34. he therefore calls to him especially to remember that Jesus Christ was the seed of David, truly man, and the true Messiah who was to be the seed of David (as the Jews themselves confessed) the Manhood of Christ soon after the Apostles times, was denied by the Marcionites and Manichees, &c.

And that he was raised from the dead, deserved Timothies remembrance, both because upon that depended the great evidence of Christ's Divine Nature, and the Salvation and Consolation of Believers.

This he saith was sutable to the Doctrine of the Gospel which he had preached to them; he calls it his Gospel, because committed to his trust to publish, so Rom. 2.16. and 16.25. which he expoundeth, Gal. 1.11. the Gospel preached by me; he speaks in the Plural Number, 1 Thess. 1.5. 2 Thess. 2.14. declaring that the Gospel was no more his, than others also who were Ministers of it.

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