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From the context with which this forcible verse is linked we learn that the apostle was treating of service, and urging his son in the faith to get the better of a diffidence which, if Hot carried to excess, is even seemly, especially in the young, but which might become a positive hindrance where boldness for the truth was imperative. Perhaps that is why power is put first, as the dominant tone in the harmony. It was evidently, of the three, the characteristic in which Timothy was most deficient. Undoubtedly there are but few in whom all three seem equally active; but that is only saying that we are uneven, that, if the great apostle of the Gentiles had all three traits in uncommon measure, still the Master alone was perfect.