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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...
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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...
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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...
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(_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 ...
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THE ROYAL COMMAND (1 Timothy 1:1-2)...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the
character of the true Gospel...
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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...
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DIGRESSION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAS BEEN JUST SAID...
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REPETITION OF CHARGE ALREADY GIVEN TO TIMOTHY...
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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...
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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...
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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 ....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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(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,...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE LAW....
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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;...
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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...
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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 -...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 1:10 fornicators G4205 sodomites G733 kidnappers G405 liars
G5583 perjurers G1965 and G2532 any G1536 thing...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:3 Confronting the False Teaching. Paul
charges Timothy to deal with the false teachers (vv. 1 Timothy 1:3).
Next he briefly corrects their
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1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:9 THE LAW IS NOT LAID DOWN FOR THE
JUST. People who are “just” do not need the law to restrain them,
but those who are LAWLESS AND DISOBEDIENT need such restraint. Paul
d...
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1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:10 THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL violate Exodus
20:14. The term includes any sexual conduct outside of heterosexual
marriage....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 6:3; 2 Timothy 1:13;...
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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...
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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...