I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,
who quickeneth all things: The word "quickeneth" (zoogonountos) means to give life or vitalize, and it conveys here the thought that God is the preserver of all (see Luke 17:33; Acts 7:19). Fairbairn explains that "God is represented as the preserver of all, and consequently as able to minister protection and support to those who were ready to obey His will, and hazard all for His glory" (242).