Pragmateia denotes life’s affairs that a serving soldier is not to become entangled in.

The attested use concerns the affairs of life from which a serving soldier is to remain unentangled in order to please the one who enlisted him.

1. Life’s affairs that can entangle · dominant

   In 2 Timothy 2:4, the dative plural feminine form occurs in the warning that no serving soldier entangles himself; the APB renders the clause “entangles himself in the affairs of life” and sets this against pleasing the one who enlisted him.

   2 Timothy 2:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Timothy 2:4, the APB presents the term within “the affairs of life.” This rendering confirms the clause’s setting rather than isolating every element of the term’s contribution.