Stratologeo refers to the person who enlists a soldier, as in the call to please that enlisting person.

The sole attested use identifies the person who enlisted a soldier, within an exhortation that the soldier avoid life's entanglements in order to please that person.

1. Enlisting a soldier · dominant

   In 2 Timothy 2:4, the aorist active dative singular masculine participle occurs in the clause about pleasing the person connected with a soldier's enlistment; the APB renders the clause “so that he may please the one who enlisted him.”

   2 Timothy 2:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Timothy 2:4, the APB presents the relevant person as “the one who enlisted him”; This reflects the clause rather than a fixed lexical rendering.