1 Timothy 6:4

he is proud, knowing nothing - Puffed up," R.V. The word occurs only here and 1 Timothy 3:6; 2 Timothy 3:4; and goes towards composing the strongvocabulary of the Epistles: -filled with a blind "inflated ignorance" " (to quote from Dr Farrar's strong modern vocabulary) may represent the force. The perfect expresses the statein which he is; the particular negative his relative, not absolute, ignorance, according to the tendency of N. T. usage.

doting about questions -Diseased" or -mad" on points of subtle disputation. The word in other writers has both meanings, and the opposition to -sound" would hold equally good with both; but the moral responsibility for this state is clearly implied, and points rather to the former: -full of a diseased disputatiousness." For -questionings," see note on 1 Timothy 1:4.

strifes of words Our own derived -logomachies." The corresponding verb occurs 2 Timothy 2:14, -otherwise only in ecclesiastical writers," Alford.

railings Clearly as in Ephesians 4:31, -anger, and clamour, and railing;" Judges 9, -durst not bring against him a railing judgment," not blasphemy against God, but slanderous reviling of one another.

evil surmisings Our -suspicions;" this word again is new to N.T. usage. Altogether we have four peculiar words in this verse, puffed up, doting, strifes of words, surmisings, indicating the new region of the Church's experience and of the Apostle's feeling.