2 Timothy 1:16
Grant mercy ( δωιη ελεος ). The phrase nowhere else in the N.T. Second aorist active optative of διδωμ, the usual form being δοιη. This is the usual construction in a wish about the future.Unto the house of Onesiphorus ( τω Ονησιφορου οικω ). The same phrase in 4:19. Apparently Onesiphorus is now dead as is implied by the wish in 1:18.
For he oft refreshed me ( οτ πολλακις με ανεψυξεν ). First aorist active indicative of αναψυχω, old verb, to cool again, in LXX and Koine often, here only in N.T., but αναψυξις in Ac 3:20. In the first imprisonment or the second. If he lost his life for coming to see Paul, it was probably recently during this imprisonment.
Was not ashamed of my chain ( αλυσιν μου ουκ επαισχυνθη ). Passive deponent again (first aorist indicative) with accusative as in 1:8. For αλυσιν (chain) see Eph 6:20. Note absence of augment in επαισχυνθη.
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