Timothy Second Epistle to

"Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from" "Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent" to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy "to come to him before winter, and to bring Mark with him (comp." "Phil. 2:22). He was anticipating that "the time of his departure" "was at hand" (2 Tim. 4:6), and he exhorts his "son Timothy" to" "all diligence and steadfastness, and to patience under" "persecution (1:6-15), and to a faithful discharge of all the" "duties of his office (4:1-5), with all the solemnity of one who" was about to appear before the Judge of quick and dead.