2 Timothy 4:13

The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when you come, bring with you, and the books, but especially the parchments.
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Ambrosiaster

AD 400
The paenula is the distinctive dress of a Roman citizen, thus a garment that Paul would have needed on his journeys to identify him as such. .

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
The cloak which I left at Troas. It is expounded a cloak by St. Chrysostom, St. Jerome Others think he may mean some coffer, or trunk, in which were his books and some things that he valued. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
What had he to do with books, who was about to depart and go to God? He needed them much, that he might deposit them in the hands of the faithful, who would retain them in place of his own teaching.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
This phailon&#;n may mean a garment, or, as some say, a bag, in which the books were contained.

John Chrysostom

AD 407
The word here translated cloak may mean a garment, or, as some say, a bag, in which the books were contained. But what had he to do with books, who was about to depart and go to God? He needed them much, that he might deposit them in the hands of the faithful, who would retain them in place of his own teaching. All the faithful, then, would suffer a great blow, but particularly those who were present at his death, and then enjoyed his society. But the cloak he requires, that he might not be obliged to receive one from another. For we see him making a great point of avoiding this; and elsewhere, when he was addressing those from Ephesus, he says, You know that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to those that were with me Acts 20:34-35; and again, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

John of Damascus

AD 749
The money-bag had the books and the paper. He teaches us as if its our last breath, that if we are in prison, the divine oracles not must not be neglected. He speaks of the Jewish propitiation of the law.

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
Nay, there is more than this: for even Christ, we shall find, has ordinary raiment; Paul, too, has his cloak. , unless any think that is was in prayer that Paul had left his cloak with Carpus!

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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