Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

1 Timothy 6:10

1 Timothy 6:10. The root of all evil. Better ‘. root.' The Greek for ‘root' has no article. The thought implied is not that the love of money is the one source of evil, but that out of it, as out of other vices of character, every form of evil would naturally spring. The position of ‘root,' however, as in the parallel construction of 1 Corinthians 11:3, gives it almost the same force as the article would do.

Which. The antecedent to the relative is not ‘money' itself, but ‘the love of money,' the apostle not shrinking, here or elsewhere, from a seeming pleonasm.

Some... have erred. The use of the formula in these Epistles leads us to the belief that St. Paul was making, not a general indefinite statement, but one referring to persons whom he knew, and whom Timothy would know, though they remain unnamed. The Greek tense, aorist, not perfect, strengthens this conviction.

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1 Timothy 6:10

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