Verse 10. _FOR WHOREMONGERS_] πορνοις. Adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of all sorts. _THEM THAT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND_] αρσενοκοιταις. From αρσην, a _male_, and κοιτη, a _bed_; a wo...
FOR WHOREMONGERS - Leviticus 19:29; Leviticus 20:5. FOR THEM THAT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND - Sodomites. See the evidence that this crime abounded in ancient times, in the notes on...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CONCERNING DOCTRINE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (1 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. The charge concerning false doctrine (1 Timothy 1:3) 3. The law, its use, and in contrast with gra...
(_b_) 1 Timothy 1:3. REMINDER OF PAUL'S VERBAL CHARGE. 1 Timothy 1:3. The False Teaching, and a Digression on the Law. Some years before, Paul had foretold that error would assail the Church in Asia ...
We know that the law is good, if a man uses it legitimately, in the awareness that the law was not instituted to deal with good men, but with the lawless and the undisciplined, the irreverent and the...
THE ROYAL COMMAND (1 Timothy 1:1-2)...
THEM THAT, &c. Greek. _arsenokoites_. See 1 Corinthians 6:9, MEN. Greek. andropodistes. Only here. PERJURED PERSONS. Greek. _epiorkos_. Only here IF App-118. THERE BE. Omit OTHER. App-124. THAT....
_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 2...
Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the character of the true Gospel...
REPETITION OF CHARGE ALREADY GIVEN TO TIMOTHY...
DIGRESSION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAS BEEN JUST SAID...
ΠΌΡΝΟΙΣ, ἈΡΣΕΝΟΚΟΊΤΑΙΣ. _Fornicators, sodomites_; the most repulsive forms of the violation of the Seventh Commandment. Cp. 1 Corinthians 6:9. ἈΝΔΡΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΑΙ͂Σ. _Men-stealers_. A man’s most precious po...
ΠΌΡΝΟΣ (G4205) блудник, аморальный человек (BAGD; TDNT; NIDNTT). ΆΡΣΕΝΟΚΟΊΤΗΣ (G733) гомосексуалист (_см._ Romans 1:26; 1 Corinthians 6:9; DPL, 413-14). ΆΝΔΡΑΠΟΔΙΣΤΉΣ (G405) х
AND IF THERE BE ANY OTHER THING, &C.— That was _sound doctrine,_ in St. Paul's account, which condemned wicked practices and evil tempers, and promoted holiness and love; that, therefore, must be _uns...
b. Misuse of the Law. 1 Timothy 1:8-11 _TEXT 1:8-11_ 8 But we know the law is good, if a man use it lawfully, 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unr...
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; WHOREMONGERS ....
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
THE FIRST CHARGE TO TIMOTHY. To remember and act upon the instructions already given him by St. Paul, which were to be firm in resisting the heterodox teachers in Ephesus, as the Apostle had been hims...
TIMOTHY REMINDED OF HIS COMMISSION, AND EXHORTED TO EARNESTNESS 1, 2. Salutation. An apostle] St. Peter and St. John, with regard to whose position no question was raised, are content to call themselv...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER The record in the book of Acts ends with the *apostle Paul in prison in *Rome. That was about AD 60 and he was there f...
FOR MENSTEALERS. — After enumerating the transgressors of the Sixth and Seventh Commandments against murder and adultery, St. Paul speaks of a class well known in the Roman world of his day — perhaps...
CHAPTER 4 THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE GNOSTICS-ITS MODERN COUNTERPART. - 1 Timothy 1:8 THE speculations of the Gnostics in their attempts to explain the origin of the universe and the origin of evil, w...
And yet this alleged antagonism of the Law to the Gospel is factitious: _the Law_ on which they insist is part of law in general; so is the Gospel with which I was entrusted. The intention of both is...
ἀνδραποδισταῖς, _plagiariis_ (Vulg.), includes all who exploit other men and women for their own selfish ends; as πόρνοις and ἀρσενοκοίταις include all improper use of sexual relations. διδασκαλία mea...
A CHARGE AGAINST “VAIN TALKING” 1 Timothy 1:1 The relation of Paul to Timothy is an example of one of those beautiful friendships between an older and a younger man, in which each is the complement o...
This letter is an apostle's letter to a young minister having oversight of the church in Ephesus. The first part of the letter deals with the Church, its doctrine, its devotions, and its ministry. Dif...
UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW Paul was not saying that the law was not from God or that it did not fulfill a very important part of his purpose. It was the law that taught man he was a sinner....
(3) As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, (4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
10_For robbers _The Latin word _plagium _ was employed by ancient writers to denote the carrying off or enticing the slave of another man, or the false sale of a freeman. Those who wish to obtain more...
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus have naturally a peculiar bearing and character, being addressed to persons deputed by the apostle to act in his name, or to care for the churches during his absence....
FOR WHOREMONGERS,.... Fornicators and adulterers, who were transgressors of the seventh command, Exodus 20:14 these God will judge, and such shall have their portion in the lake that burns with fire a...
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; Ver. 10. _For men...
_We know that the law is good_ Answers excellent purposes; _if a man use it lawfully_ In a proper manner. Even the ceremonial law is good as it points to Christ, and is emblematical of the various bra...
SOUND DOCTRINE; the doctrine of the gospel, called, "The doctrine which is according to godliness," chap 1 Timothy 6:3, as having for its scope true godliness, and opposing itself to every form of wic...
THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE LAW....
FOR WHOREMONGERS, FOR THEM THAT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, FOR MEN-STEALERS, FOR LIARS, FOR PERJURED PERSONS, AND IF THERE BE ANY OTHER THING THAT IS CONTRARY TO SOUND DOCTRINE;...
The apostleship of Paul is shown here to be no light matter. His was a call totally independent of the other apostles, but "according to the command of God." We have, therefore, no liberty to regard h...
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; 1. Whoremongers -...
“AND IMMORAL MEN”: That is, those involved in sex outside the marriage relationship, including fornication, adultery, and prostitution. The word here is the word rendered “sexual immorality” or “forni...
5-11 Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and...
The two next terms express violaters of the seventh commandment, whether by fornication, adultery, incest, sodomy, or any beastly lusts. MEN-STEALERS; the word signifieth such as carry men into captiv...
1 Timothy 1:10 fornicators G4205 sodomites G733 kidnappers G405 liars G5583 perjurers G1965 and G2532 any G1536 thing...
1 Timothy 1:10. Sins against the seventh commandment, recognising the true division of natural and unnatural vices (‘defilers of themselves with _males_ '), came first; then the worst form of offence...
FOR ABUSERS OF THEMSELVES WITH MEN (αρσενοκοιταις). Late compound for sodomites. In N.T. only here and 1 Corinthians 6:9.MEN-STEALERS (ανδραποδισταις). Old word from ανδραποδιζω (from ανηρ, man, π...
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;_ Christ is our hope; we have not a shadow of a hope apart from him. I...
CONTENTS: Legalism and unsound teaching rebuked. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy, Alexander, Satan, Hymenaeus CONCLUSION: Witnesses of Christ must not only be charged to preach the true Gospel doctr...
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ._ Beza cites here the reading of the Complute polyglot bible, made under the patronage of...
IT MUST BE REMEMBERED. "Law" is not given to put men right with God, but to stop those who do evil and to punish them. See note at the end of Romans 3:31....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 1:8. WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD.—The “grace and truth” which “came by Jesus Christ” did not abrogate the law. That law had a moral excellence, was indeed...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ_,_ _A.V. and T.R.; _according to _for _by_,_ _A.V.; _Christ Jesus our hope _for _Lord Jesus Christ_,_ which is our hope_,_ _A.V. and T.R. For...
Vers. 9, 10. The specific application is here given of the general principle just announced not, of course, the only application which it admitted of, but the one which was of importance for the prese...
First Timothy. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour (1 Timothy 1:1), And the Greek word is "the royal commandment" of God; it's a word that is used when a king had m...
1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 6:3; 2 Timothy 1:13;...
Them that defile themselves with mankind [α ρ σ ε ν ο κ ο ι τ α ι ς]. Only here and 1 Corinthians 6:9. o LXX, o Class. Menstealers [α ν δ ρ α π ο δ ι σ τ α ι ς]. N. T. o. Once in LXX Ellicott remarks...
Manstealers — The worst of all thieves, in comparison of whom, highwaymen and housebreakers are innocent. What then are most traders in negroes, procurers of servants for America, and all who list sol...