2 Timothy 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The apostle passeth from his former discourse, wherein he had armed Timothy against the afflictions of the gospel, to a discourse about the doctrine of the gospel; and here mentioneth two principal heads of that doctrine, the incarnation of Christ, and his resurrection, which he instanceth in, as more particularly to be remembered and pressed upon Christians, in regard they were those two points of the gospel which were either at that time denied, as that of the incarnation was by the Jews, or he knew would first be opposed; and the latter that which declared Christ to be the Son of God with power, Romans 1:4, and upon a faith in which Christians salvation and consolation much depended, Romans 4:25, Romans 8:34; he therefore calls to him especially to remember that Jesus Christ was of the seed of David, truly man, and the true Messiah, who was to be the seed of David, (as the Jews themselves confessed): the manhood of Christ, soon after the apostle's times, was denied by the Marcionites and Manichees, &c. And that he was raised from the dead deserved Timothy's remembrance, both because upon that depended the great evidence of Christ's Divine nature, and the salvation and consolation of believers. According to my gospel; this, he saith, was suitable to the doctrine of the gospel which he had preached to them: he calls it his gospel, because committed to his trust to publish; so Romans 2:16, and Romans 16:25, which he expoundeth, Galatians 1:11, the gospel preached of me: he speaks in the plural number, 1 Thessalonians 1:5 2 Thessalonians 2:14; declaring that the gospel was no more his than others also who were ministers of it.