2 Timothy 1:15

Contextual Overview

¹⁵You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.¹⁵ You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁵ You are aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.¹⁵You are aware of this: that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁵You know everyone who rode with me from the province of Asia has turned tail and run, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁵ You have had news that all those in Asia went away from me; among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes: ¹⁵ Thou knowest this, that all who [are] in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me. ¹⁵ This you know: All those in Asia have turned away from me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁵ This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. ¹⁵ This thou knowest, that all who are in Asia are turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

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that: Acts 16:6, Acts 19:10, Acts 19:27, Acts 19:31, Acts 20:16, 1 Corinthians 16:19

be: 2 Timothy 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:16, Philippians 2:21

Reciprocal: Matthew 13:21 - is Matthew 24:10 - shall many Mark 4:17 - have John 6:66 - of his Acts 2:9 - Asia Acts 19:9 - but spake Ephesians 4:14 - tossed 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - hold 1 Timothy 5:15 - General 2 Timothy 4:4 - turn 2 Timothy 4:11 - Only 1 Peter 1:1 - Asia

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia,.... Either those that followed the apostle from Asia to Rome; or who came from thence thither, upon business, and were upon the spot when the apostle was in his greatest troubles, and yet all forsook him and no man stood by him; or else the churches and ministers in Asia, that is, a great number of them; for it cannot be said of every minister and church, and of all the members of churches there, what follows,

be turned away from me; were ashamed of him, because of his chain, and despised him under his afflictions, and had him in abhorrence and contempt, and revolted from his doctrine; though the defection was very general, and the apostle appeals to Timothy for the truth of it, as a fact well known to him: "this thou knowest"; Timothy being at Ephesus, which was in Asia; and since there was so great an apostasy in the country where he was, the above exhortations were very seasonable, to hold fast the form of sound words, and keep the good thing committed to him; seeing so many were falling off from the truth of the Gospel:

of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes: who very likely were ministers of the word, and who had shone for a while, but were now stars fallen from heaven, had erred from the faith, and were become apostates, and proved men of corrupt minds, and deceivers of the people; and it may be that these were more open and infamous than some others, or might be more known to Timothy, and therefore are particularly mentioned. They are both of them said to have been of the seventy disciples; :- and afterwards followers of Simon Magus. The name of the first of these signifies a "fugitive", and such was he from the cause of Christ. Pliny c makes mention of a town in Asia, called Phygella, from the fugitives which built it; and the latter signifies born of Mercury; there was one of the name in Tertullian's time, against whom he wrote.

c Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me - That is, in that part of Asia Minor of which Ephesus was the capital. The name Asia was often given particularly to that part of Asia Minor; see the notes at Acts 2:9; Acts 16:6. This passage proves that Timothy was somewhere in that region when this Epistle was written to him, for otherwise he could not be supposed to Know what is here said. When Paul says that “all” were turned away from him, he must use the word in a general sense, for he immediately specifies one who had been faithful and kind to him.

Of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes - We know nothing of these individuals but what is here mentioned. It would seem that they were prominent persons, and those from whom the apostle had a right to expect other treatment. “The ecclesiastical traditions allege that they were of the seventy disciples, and in the end became followers of Simon Magus. We imagine that this is little more than conjecture.” It is a sad thing when the only record made of a man - the only evidence which we have that he ever lived at all - is, that he turned away from a friend, or forsook the paths of true religion. And yet there are many men of whom the only thing to be remembered of them is, that they lived to do wrong.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. All they which are in Asia — It seems as if the apostle must refer to the Asiatic Christians which were then at Rome, or had been lately there. Finding the apostle in disgrace, and thinking it dangerous to own him or his cause, they neither visited him, or confessed Christianity. He cannot be speaking of any general defection of the Asiatic Churches, but of those Asiatics who had professed a particular friendship for him.

Phygellus and Hermogenes. — These were two of the persons of whom he complains; but who they were, or what office they held, or whether they were any thing but private Christians who had for a time ministered to St. Paul in prison, and, when they found the state determined to destroy him, ceased to acknowledge him, we cannot tell.