Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
"No one while serving as a soldier."
the affairs of (this) life—"the businesses of life" [ALFORD]; mercantile, or other than military.
him who hath chosen him—the general who at the first enlisted him as a soldier. Paul himself worked at tent-making (Acts 18:3). Therefore what is prohibited here is, not all other save religious occupation, but the becoming entangled, or over-engrossed therewith.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Timothy 2:4:
1 Corinthians 9:12
2 Timothy 1:7
2 Timothy 1:8
2 Timothy 2:2
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