CHAPTER II Ver. 1. _I exhort then., first of all, that petitions, prayers, supplications, thanksgivings, be made for all men._ The connection marked here by the οὖν with what precedes cannot be designated very close, and our _then_ may more fitly be taken to represent the illative particle than the... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 2. By mentioning _all men_ as the object of their prayers and thanksgivings, the apostle undoubtedly meant to teach Christians to cherish wide and generous sympathies, and to identify their own happiness and wellbeing with those of their fellow-men. But he specially associates the duty with tho... [ Continue Reading ]
Vers. 3, 4. _For this_ namely, to make intercession to God in behalf of kings, of rulers generally, and of men of all sorts _is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,_ a thing which in His reckoning is good, and is sure of meeting with His approval: for there seems no need for confining the _be... [ Continue Reading ]
Vers. 5, 6. _For there is one God, one Mediator also of God and men_. The connective particle (γὰρ) presents what is here stated as an adequate ground, more immediately for the statement in the preceding verse, that God would have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth; but a... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 7. The apostle here introduces his own relation to this testimony-bearing: _Whereunto I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I speak the truth,_ (The received text has ἐν Χριστῷ, but it is wanting in the best MSS., A, D, F, G, also It. Vulg. Syr. Cop. versions, and is therefore justly omit... [ Continue Reading ]
Vers. 11, 12. The apostle proceeds now to give prescriptions of a more general kind respecting the proper sphere and behaviour of women. _Let a woman learn in silence in all subjection_ spoken primarily and mainly with reference to the public assemblies of the church, and only an abbreviated reinfor... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 14. From this sinful violation of the primeval order, with its disastrous results, the apostle fetches his second reason for fixing in the manner he does the social position of woman: _And Adam was not deceived; hut the woman, being altogether deceived,_ (The best reading is ἐξαπατηθεῖσα, a str... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver. 15. _But she shall he saved through the child-bearing, if they abide in faith, and love, and holiness, with discretion._ It is clear from the structure of the passage, that while Eve was formally before the eye of the apostle, it was she as the representative of her sex, womankind: hence, she _... [ Continue Reading ]