Forsaker or Partaker

The caption of this article refers to the brief but lucid story of Demas recorded in II Timothy 4:10. The brevity of the story is such that we can relate it unabbreviated on this page. It reads like this: “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica.” The clarity of this story is seen not so much in the facts as such but rather in its repetitious character. Writes T. G. New, “Poor Demas was not the last of his tribe. We today seem to have...