Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. Thyself approved, [5] or acceptable to God.—Rightly handling. [6] 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 Prot. 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 11 and 4. These he admonishes us (as he did before, 1 Timothy 6:20) to avoid, for they have a popular way of expression, by which the unlearned are easily beguiled. “Nothing is so easy,” says S. Jerom, “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. chapter 10