that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
      II. He reminds him of the confession that he himself had made: Thou hast professed a good profession before many witnesses (1 Timothy 6:12; 1 Timothy 6:12), namely, when he was ordained by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. The obligation of that was still upon him, and he must live up to that, and be quickened by that, to do the work of his ministry.