1 Timothy 1 - Introduction
Title The title given in A.V. agrees with that adopted by the Elzevir editions of 1624, 1633. But the best mss. give only FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY, as also for the -Subscription.... [ Continue Reading ]
Title The title given in A.V. agrees with that adopted by the Elzevir editions of 1624, 1633. But the best mss. give only FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY, as also for the -Subscription.... [ Continue Reading ]
Apostolic Faithfulness 1, 2. Greeting 1. _AN_ _apostle of Jesus Christ_ Read rather with the mss. AN APOSTLE OF CHRIST JESUS, and again with a similar transposition and omitting -Lord," CHRIST JESUS OUR HOPE; as in 1Ti 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:1; Titus 1:4. Altogether, according to the best mss., the cha... [ Continue Reading ]
my _own son in the faith_ Better, MY TRUE CHILD IN FAITH with R.V.; CHILD, because the word is used, as the Greek _teknon_is, (1) of specially tender affectionateness, (2) of the spiritual relationship of a disciple to a teacher; TRUE, that is, shewing a real and marked resemblance in character to y... [ Continue Reading ]
_As I besought thee_… so do] Rather AS I EXHORTED THEE … SO DO I NOW, i.e. EXHORT THEE. The R.V. varies between -beseech" and -exhort" for _parakalein_, e.g. reading in Philemon 1:9, -for love's sake I rather beseech." _to abide_still] Or TO TARRY; the force of the preposition in the verb is expres... [ Continue Reading ]
Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the character of the true Gospel... [ Continue Reading ]
_fables and endless genealogies_ Ellicott following Chrysostom and the early Greek commentators regards the false teaching as arising from Jewish, perhaps Cabbalistic sources, and only an affluent afterwards of the later and more definite Gnosticism Rabbinical fables and fabrications in history and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Now the end of the commandment_ Better, BUT THE END OF THE CHARGE, -but" rather than -now" because it is not so much the commencement of a new paragraph as a positive statement of the true aim of the ministry to counteract the statement just made of false aims, so completing the paragraph. -The cha... [ Continue Reading ]
_from which_ Plural FROM WHICH THINGS, that is the love and its threefold helpers, in the grace, the life, and the creed. _having swerved_ Lit. -having missed the mark," another of the words peculiar to these epistles, occurring only ch. 1 Timothy 6:21 and 2 Timothy 2:18. _vain jangling_ EMPTY TALK... [ Continue Reading ]
_understanding_ More exactly, THOUGH THEY UNDERSTAND; the negative particle used shews that the clause is subordinate to, not parallel with -setting themselves up," or -desiring," and expresses _their_thoughts. -We choose to teach, without understanding." Winer, § 55. 5 b, p. 607. _neither what they... [ Continue Reading ]
_But we know_ YET WE ARE ALL AWARE, a correction or concession. St Paul uses -we know" in a similar way, Romans 7:14, -I grant that the law is spiritual"; 1 Corinthians 8:3, -We are quite aware (with irony) that we all have knowledge." _if a man use it lawfully_ The regular Greek idiom correspondin... [ Continue Reading ]
_knowing this_ The A.V. putting a full stop after -lawfully" gives an entirely wrong turn here; the R.V. puts a comma and inserts -as" in order to shew the connexion of -knowing" with -a man"; we may continue the above rendering rather more idiomatically, IF IT BE HANDLED AS LAW SHOULD BE AND WITH T... [ Continue Reading ]
_whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind_ breakers of the seventh commandment. _menstealers_ breakers of the eighth commandment, the grossest theft; punishable with death, Exodus 21:16, by the Mosaic code, as also among the Greeks. _perjured_persons] breakers of the ninth comman... [ Continue Reading ]
_according to the glorious gospel_ Rather with R.V. ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY. How far back does St Paul look in -according to the gospel"? Surely through the whole passage since the last _winding up_at the end of 1 Timothy 1:3; just as the next passage winds up similarly at 1 Timothy 1:1... [ Continue Reading ]
Faithful Ministry. Timothy is further reminded of St Paul's own Calling and Commission 12. This strong feeling quite accounts for the abruptness with which once again (after many other utterances of his own religious experiences) he claims -all the mercy" and acknowledges -all the sin," and offers... [ Continue Reading ]
_who was before a blasphemer_ A translation of the ace. masc. of the article taken with the participle. But the neuter of the article has the best support, and is taken with the adverb, giving it a slightly stronger force -during the former days"; while the participle has the concessive sense, THOUG... [ Continue Reading ]
_the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant_ -Overflowed its wonted channels," and a stream of faith and love in me, having Jesus Christ for its source and life, flowed _side by side with_this full flood of grace and mercy. The removal of the comma by R.V. after -abundant" leaves the force of the... [ Continue Reading ]
This is _a faithful saying_ More exactly, FAITHFUL IS THE SAYING, -gravissima praefandi formula, says Bengel; the first of five occurrences in these epistles, where only it is found, 1 Timothy 3:1; 1 Timothy 4:9; 2 Timothy 2:11; Titus 3:8. With it we may compare Revelation 21:5, and our Lord's -Veri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Howbeit_ A characteristic re-assertion with a new antithesis, -Yes, I am indeed chief of sinners, but still I received mercy on this account, that I might also be chief exemplar of Jesus Christ's all-patience." Translate with R.V. THAT IN ME AS CHIEF (i.e. OF SINNERS) MIGHT JESUS CHRIST SHEW FORTH... [ Continue Reading ]
_honour and glory_ This combination by itself is only found here. St Paul uses -glory" with the article generally. Such an ascription is with St Paul a most characteristic close of passages which are the evident outburst of strong warm feeling excited by some particular train of thought.... [ Continue Reading ]
Faithful Ministry. Timothy is further reminded of the fall of some false Teachers 18. _This charge_ From note on 1 Timothy 1:5 we shall see no difficulty in the reference of the words here. St Paul has put -the charge" of which he is full in two different ways in 3 11 and 12 17; he puts it now in a... [ Continue Reading ]
_faith, and a good conscience_ Together as in 1 Timothy 1:5. _which some having put away_ Probably both faith and good conscience, the relative agreeing in number only with the latter. Render rather HAVING THRUST AWAY a wilful casting away of rudder and compass. _concerning faith have made shipwrac... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hymeneus and Alexander_ The name Hymenæus occurs again in 2 Timothy 2:17, and being uncommon and used in both places of an heretical person in the same locality may fairly be taken as referring to the same person; the heresy condemned is practically the same; -the profane babblings" there represent... [ Continue Reading ]