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 (Compare Phil 2:22 ). He was anticipating that "the time of his departure was at hand" ( 2 Timothy 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.