1 Timothy 1:10

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.

perjuredpersons] breakers of the ninth commandment. Cf. Leviticus 19:12.

and ifthere be any otherthing that is contrary to sound doctrine breakers of the tenth commandment as an inclusive summary embracing all sides and all aspects of each part of the duty to one's neighbour, -not to covet nor desire other men's goods, but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to do my duty." The mode of expression and the use of the particle are quite St Paul's; cf. Romans 13:9, -and if there be any other commandment," Philippians 4:8, -if there be any virtue and any praise."

sound doctrine With R.V. render the sound doctrine. The word for -doctrine" occurs 15 times in these epistles, against seven times in the rest of the N. T.; a mark that the original simple concrete word -teaching" is gradually becoming the settled abstract term -doctrine." But it is still too soon for the idea of this general abstraction which is conveyed to our mind by the phrase -sound doctrine." The insertion of the article (according to the Greek) gives us just an English equivalent of the middle stage which the phrase has reached.

The nearest to the use of the Past. Epp. is Ephesians 4:14, where we ought to read -every wind of the doctrine," the article referring to all the work of apostles, prophets, evangelists and teachers just spoken of.

sound -healthful," an epithet occurring with -doctrine" or -words" six times in these epistles and nowhere else; in contrast to a different form of error from any previously described, -the sickly (ch. 1 Timothy 6:4) and morbid (2 Timothy 2:17) teaching of Jewish gnosis," Ellicott.