Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

1 Timothy 2:1

1 Timothy 2:1. I exhort therefore. Carrying on the thought that he has begun a ‘charge and has to continue with it, perhaps also connecting faith in the love of Christ to all men, with the expression of that faith in worship.

Supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks. Each word has a distinct shade of meaning, and without any undue assumption, the list may be looked on as showing that the primitive worship of the Church included the same elements as those which we find in the earliest liturgies (1) entreaties rising out of want, danger, or distress; (2) requests for spiritual blessings; (3) intercessions on behalf of we desolate and oppressed, with an implied prayer against the wickedness of the oppressor, as in Romans 8:26-27; Romans 8:34; Romans 11:2; (4) thanksgiving, implying a prayer for the continuance of the blessing for which we give thanks. It may be noted, however, that the word rendered ‘intercessions' includes earnest personal pleading, meeting God, as it were, in prayer, whether for ourselves or others.

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