Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
All Commentaries on 2 Timothy 2:15 Go To 2 Timothy 2
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Thyself approved, or acceptable to God.
Rightly handling. In the Greek, cutting or dividing the word of truth, according to the capacities of the hearers, and for the good of all. (Witham)
The Protestant version has, dividing the word of truth. All Christians challenge the Scriptures, but the whole is in the rightly handling them. Heretics change and adulterate them, as the same apostle affirms, 2 Corinthians xi. and 4. These he admonishes us (as he did before, 1 Timothy vi. 20.) to avoid, for they have a popular way of expression, by which the unlearned are easily beguiled. "Nothing is so easy "says St. Jerome, "as with a facility and volubility of speech to deceive the illiterate, who are apt to admire what they cannot comprehend. "(Ep. ii. ad Nepot. chap. 10)
