2 Timothy 2:4
Douay-Rheims
No man, being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with secular businesses; that he may please him to whom he hath engaged himself.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
"No one while serving as a soldier." the affairs of (this) life--"the businesses of life" [ALFORD]; mercantile, or other than military. him who hath chosen him--the general who at the first enlisted him as a soldier. Paul himself worked at tent-making (Act 18:3). Therefore what is prohibited here is, not all other save religious occupation, but the becoming entangled, or over-engrossed therewith.
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1871 · 2Tim 2:4
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