{Suffer hardship with me} (sunkakopath(8873)on). See 1:8 for
this verb. The old preacher challenges the young one to share
hardship with him for Christ. {As a good soldier} (hos kalos
strati(9374)(8873)). Paul does not hesitate to use this military
metaphor (this word only here for a servant of Christ) with which
he is so familiar. He had already used the metaphor in 1Co 9:7 2Co 10:3f. 1Ti 1:18 . In Php 2:25 he called Epaphroditus "my
fellow-soldier" (sunstrati(9374)(886e) mou) as he did Archippus in Phm
1:2 .
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