Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Timothy 4:10
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2 Timothy4:10
10 For Demas hath forsaken me , having loved this present world , and is departed unto Thessalonica , Crescens to Galatia , Titus unto Dalmatia .
He sheweth the reason why he desired Timothy to come to him, because most of those who were with him, were gone. Some think this Demas is Demetrius, mentioned 3 Iohn 12. (the name being only shortened.) He was at Rome with Paul some time, Col. 4.14. Some make a question, whether Demas wholly Aposta[illegible: 1 letter]ized, or only left Paul for a time, and went to Thessalonica about some secular business, afterward returning▪
Some make the sense of this phrase no more then minding his worldly business. Others think that he being frighted with Pauls danger, wholly left him,
and went to Thessalonica, possibly his own country, however, at a great distance from the danger of Neroes Court.
A Province in the lesser Asia, whither probably Crescens went to preach the Gospel.
Dalmatia is in Sclavonia, Titus went thither (without all doubt) to preach the Gospel.
Marginal references: Philemon 24.
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