so long as I am in this tent, I deem it proper to stir you up by way of reminder,
This is the second letter I have already written to you, beloved, stirring up your pure mind by way of reminder,
since I know my tent must be folded up very soon — as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.
Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;
and in this confidence I would fain get away from the body and reside with the Lord.
Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;
It is only natural for me to be thinking of you all in this way, for alike in my prison and as I defend and vindicate the gospel, I bear in mind how you all share with me in the grace divine.
I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,