1 Timothy 6:6

The repetition of πορισμός in a fresh idealised sense is parallel to the transfigured sense in which νομίμως is used in 1 Timothy 1:8.

αὐταρκείας : not here sufficientia (Vulg.), though that is an adequate rendering in 2 Corinthians 9:8. St. Paul did not mean to express the sentiment of the A.V. of Ecclesiastes 7:11, “Wisdom is good with an inheritance”. Contentment does not even give his meaning. Contentment is relative to one's lot; αὐτάρκεια is more profound, and denotes independence of, and indifference to, any lot; a man's finding not only his resources in himself, but being indifferent to everything else besides. This was St. Paul's condition when he had learnt to be αὐτάρκης, Philippians 4:11. “Lord of himself, though not of lands” (Sir. H. Wotston). See chap. 1 Timothy 4:8. The popular as opposed to the philosophical use of αὐτάρκεια, as evidenced by the papyri, is simply enough. See Moulton and Milligan, Expositor, vii., vi. 375.