I exhort therefore — Seeing God is so gracious. In this chapter he gives directions, With regard to public prayers With regard to doctrine. Supplication is here the imploring help in time of need: prayer is any kind of offering up our desires to God. But true prayer is the vehemency of holy zeal, th... [ Continue Reading ]
For all that are in authority — Seeing even the lowest country magistrates frequently do much good or much harm. God supports the power of magistracy for the sake of his own people, when, in the present state of men, it could not otherwise be kept up in any nation whatever. Godliness — Inward religi... [ Continue Reading ]
For this — That we pray for all men. Do you ask, "Why are not more converted?" We do not pray enough. Is acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour — Who has actually saved us that believe, and willeth all men to be saved. It is strange that any whom he has actually saved should doubt the universali... [ Continue Reading ]
Who willeth seriously all men — Not a part only, much less the smallest part. To be saved — Eternally. This is treated of, 1 Timothy 2:5. And, in order thereto, to come — They are not compelled. To the knowledge of the truth — Which brings salvation. This is treated of, 1 Timothy 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — 1 Timothy 2:4 is proved by 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:1, by 1 Timothy 2:4. There is one God — And they who have not him, through the one Mediator, have no God. One mediator also — We could not rejoice that there is a God, were there not a mediator also; one who stands between God and men, to r... [ Continue Reading ]
Who gave himself a ransom for all — Such a ransom, the word signifies, wherein a like or equal is given; as an eye for an eye, or life for life: and this ransom, from the dignity of the person redeeming, was more than equivalent to all mankind. To be testified of in due season — Literally, in his ow... [ Continue Reading ]
I will — A word strongly expressing his apostolical authority. Therefore — This particle connects 1 Timothy 2:8 with 1 Timothy 2:1. That men pray in every place — Public and private. Wherever men are, there prayer should be. Lifting up holy hands — Pure from all known sin. Without wrath — In any kin... [ Continue Reading ]
With sobriety — Which, in St. Paul's sense, is the virtue which governs our whole life according to true wisdom. Not with curled hair, not with gold — Worn by way of ornament. Not with pearls — Jewels of any kind: a part is put for the whole. Not with costly raiment — These four are expressly forbid... [ Continue Reading ]
To usurp authority over the man — By public teaching.... [ Continue Reading ]
First — So that woman was originally the inferior.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Adam was not deceived — The serpent deceived Eve: Eve did not deceive Adam, but persuaded him. "Thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife," Genesis 3:17. The preceding verse showed why a woman should not "usurp authority over the man." this shows why she ought not "to teach." She is more ea... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet she — That is, women in general, who were all involved with Eve in the sentence pronounced, Genesis 3:16. Shall be saved in childbearing — Carried safe through the pain and danger which that sentence entails upon them for the transgression; yea, and finally saved, if they continue in loving fait... [ Continue Reading ]