{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg4102.tlg035.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4102.tlg035.local001","title":"Catena In Epistulam II Ad Timotheum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Catenae (Novum Testamentum)","authorityName":"CATENAE (Novum Testamentum)","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4102-catenae-novum-testamentum/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg4102-catenae-novum-testamentum/","editors":["John Anthony Cramer"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum","edition":null,"publisher":"Oxford University Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1843","volume":"7","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/catenaegraecorum07cramuoft/page/54/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Catenae (novum Testamentum). Catena In Epistulam II Ad Timotheum. ed. John Anthony Cramer. Catenae Graecorum Patrum in Novum Testamentum, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1843. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg4102.tlg035.local001","excerpt":"Τι δήποτε καὶ δευτέραν ἐπιστέλλει τῷ Τιμοθέῳ Ἐπιστολὴν; εἰπεν, “ἐλπίζω ἐλθεῖν πρός σε τάχιον·” οὐκ ἐγένετο τοῦτο· παραμυθεῖται αὐτὸν διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων ἀντὶ τῆς παρουσίας ἴσως τεθλιμμένον, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο καὶ διὰ τὸ ἀρχῆς ἤδη ἧφθαι· κἂν γὰρ μεγάλοι τινὲς ἄνδρες ὦσιν, ὅταν ἀναδέξωνται τοὺς οἴακας τῆς ἐκκλησίας, ξενοπαθοῦσι, καὶ μάλιστα, ὅτε ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ κηρύγματος ἦν. οὐ διὰ γραμμάτων δὲ αὐτὸν παραμυθεῖται μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ καλεῖ πρὸς ἑαυτόν· “σπούδασον γὰρ ἐλθεῖν πρός με ταχέως· δοκεῖ δέ μοι πρὸς τῷ τέλει εἶναι αὕτη ἡ Ἐπιστολὴ ἐκ τῶν λεγομένων ἐνταῦθα· ποιεῖται δὲ τὴν παράκλησιν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκείων πειρασμῶν, εὐθέως δὲ ἀνέστησεν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν, ἀπὸ τοῦ προοιμίου, “κατ’ ἐπαγγελίαν,” εἰπὼν, “ζωῆς τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.” μή μοι τοὺς ἐνταῦθα κινδύνους εἴπῃ, φησὶν, οὗτοι τίκτουσιν ἡμῖν τὴν αἰώνιον ζωὴν, ἔνθα ἀπέδρα ὀδύνη καὶ λύπη καὶ στεναγμός· εἰ δὲ ἐπαγγελίᾳ ἐστὶ, μὴ ζήτει αὐτὴν ἐνταῦθα· ἐλπὶς…","divisions":[{"label":"ΤΩΝ ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΝ Β΄ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΝ ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ ΕΞΗΓΗΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΚΛΟΓΩΝ ΤΟΜΟΣ Α.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-hyp"},{"label":"ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΝ B ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-toc"},{"label":"ΕΞΗΓΗΣΙΣ ΕΙΣ THN ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΜΟΘΕΟΝ ΕΗIΣTΟΛΗΝ B.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-praef"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Α.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-1"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Β.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-2"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Γ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-3"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Δ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-4"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Ε.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-5"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. ς.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-6"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Ζ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-7"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Η.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-8"},{"label":"ΚΕΦ. Θ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/#tlg4102-tlg035-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg4102.tlg035.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg4102/tlg035/local001.json.gz"}}