2 Timothy 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel: We may be sure, then, that the phrase "my gospel" is not used by St. Paul in the spirit either of the Pharisee or of the bigot. He is not one who refuses to recognise the excellence in those who may not exactly agree with him, or assumes that to him alone is committed a trustworthy form of the faith. Nevertheless, the phrase has a distinct force of its own. It suggests that St. Paul looked at the gospel from his own standpoint, and that the gospel as he represented it had aspects differing somewhat from the same gospel as represented by others. We need not be afraid to admit this. If you look at any great mountain from several points of view, its parts are at once brought into varying relations to each other. Standing here you see clearly great peaks, which from another position would be hidden. Nay, if you look at the same mountain from the same standpoint at different times, it will present different aspects — now dim and mysterious in the grey morning, and now rosy with the after-glow when the sun has set. Yet it is the same mountain, presenting itself in varying guise to different spectators. So with St. Paul. When he speaks of "my gospel," it is not another gospel in the sense of being contradictory, or even deficient as compared with the gospel proclaimed by other apostles. It is the same gospel, seen, however, from his own standpoint — "the gospel according to Paul." (T. B. Stephenson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:WEB: Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News, |
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