1 Timothy 1:11

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 upat the end of 1 Timothy 1:3; just as the next passage winds up similarly at 1 Timothy 1:17. (The marking of the paragraphs in the R.V. throughout will be worth careful notice.) The charge to insist on sound teaching the end of the charge, a life of love unselfish out of faith unfeigned, instead of a laboured law of mystic perfectionism the sound teaching of those who (as he had written them word, Ephesians 4:11) were given them by Christ for the purpose all this was -according to the gospel of the glory of God": for thechief and surpassing glory of God was seen not in the law but in the person, the life of Jesus Christ.

the blessed God The epithet seems added from the rush of personal feeling as the sense of the present love and mercy of Christ (never long absent) comes to him strongly in penning the words. It occurs again in 1 Timothy 6:15 in a similar passage.