Deserted
2Tim 4:9,10 Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Demas was mentioned in a couple of other of Paul's epistles as a fellow worker, such as Phm 1:24 "Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers." Crescens is only mentioned here, but was likely an associate of Paul as Demas had been. And Titus, of course, we're all familiar with as he had a whole epistle devoted to him.
These three, along with others, deserted Paul with regards to this particular incident. Not to say that they abandoned the faith, but rather with regards to this event they fled. Much as some who say Paul was just referring to Demas here, yet if one simply puts aside perceived notions and reads the text, one is led to assume he's referring to all three leaving him for illegitimate reasons. John writes, "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1John 2:15 This is not to say that Demas does not categorically have the Fathers love in him. For John used the present tense, which in Greek alludes to one's lifestyle and not to particular events in time. While Paul used the Aorist tense both for "deserted" and "loved" limiting his comment to that particular event. (People who confuse the aorist and present tense when interpreting the Bible often end up misconstruing its meaning)
2Tim 4:9,10 Do your best to come to me quickly, for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
Demas was mentioned in a couple of other of Paul's epistles as a fellow worker, such as Phm 1:24 "Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke, my fellow workers." Crescens is only mentioned here, but was likely an associate of Paul as Demas had been. And Titus, of course, we're all familiar with as he had a whole epistle devoted to him.
These three, along with others, deserted Paul with regards to this particular incident. Not to say that they abandoned the faith, but rather with regards to this event they fled. Much as some who say Paul was just referring to Demas here, yet if one simply puts aside perceived notions and reads the text, one is led to assume he's referring to all three leaving him for illegitimate reasons. John writes, "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1John 2:15 This is not to say that Demas does not categorically have the Fathers love in him. For John used the present tense, which in Greek alludes to one's lifestyle and not to particular events in time. While Paul used the Aorist tense both for "deserted" and "loved" limiting his comment to that particular event. (People who confuse the aorist and present tense when interpreting the Bible often end up misconstruing its meaning)
