1 Timothy 1:9

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 the knowledge that.

the law is not made There is no article, and we may with the R.V. translate, law is not made; not thereby drawing a marked distinction between -law" here and -the law" of Moses above, but following St Paul's instinct of language, and by the omission drawing attention to the play on words or the antithesis intended, in a crisper and more proverbial way. This explanation will satisfy all the cases of omission of article before -law" quoted by Winer from Galatians 2:21; Galatians 3:11; Galatians 3:18; Galatians 3:21; Galatians 4:5. Cf. Winer, § 19, Moulton n.; Lightfoot's Gal. 11. 19. Here -law" and -the lawless" stand in sharper contrast without the article.

for a righteousman] By -righteous" we may well understand one -who has his measure of fruit in holiness" (Ellicott, quoting Hooker), in contrast to those who not only ignore the law as any check on their life, lawless, but are positively disobedientor unruly, delighting in open defiance of it; being ungodly, with no fear of God or sense of His presence before their mind; and sinners, marked as such by definite acts of sin (Luke 18:13), (2 Peter 1:6); (for the two words together compare Judges 15).

unholy They are further breakers of the first and second commandments; the word describes the disregard of duty to God, and only occurs here and 2 Timothy 3:2; but the corresponding word for the performing of this duty occurs in 1 Timothy 2:8, -lifting up holyhands in worship."

profane breakers of the third and fourth commandments; the N. T. use of the word describes disregard of God's day, Matthew 12:5; of God's house, Acts 24:6; of God's law and truth, 1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:16; of God's name and birthright blessing, Hebrews 12:16.

murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers breakers of the fifth commandment, cf. Exodus 21:15. In this and in the following words St Paul evidently singles out the worstbreaches of the Jaw, his argument being -the law was meant to convict the vilest you apply it to the holiest." Hence, we must keep the stronger meaning -parricide," though the Greek word by its proper derivation means -father-beater." When it came to have the meaning -parricide," a different derivation was also assigned to it and the spelling a little altered accordingly. For similar corruptions in English to fit a supposed derivation compare -reindeer," -causeway," -camel leopard."

manslayers breakers of the sixth commandment.