Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

1 Timothy 5:12

Having damnation [ε χ ο υ σ α ι κ ρ ι μ α]. The phrase only here. See on 1 Timothy 3:6. Damnation is an unfortunate rendering in the light of the present common understanding of the word, as it is also in 1 Corinthians 11:29. Better, judgment or condemnation, as Romans 3:8; Romans 13:2. The meaning is that they carry about with them in their new, married life a condemnation, a continuous reproach. Comp. ch. 1 Timothy 4:2; Galatians 5:10. It should be said for the translators of 1611 that they used damnation in this sense of, judgment or condemnation, as is shown by the present participle having. In its earlier usage the word implied no allusion to a future punishment. Thus Chaucer

"For wel thou woost (knowest) thyselven verraily That thou and I be dampned to prisoun." Knight's T. 1175.

Wielif : "Nethir thou dredist God, that thou art in the same dampnacioun?" Luke 23:40. Laud. : "Pope Alexander 3 condemned Peter Lombard of heresy, and he lay under that damnation for thirty and six years." " A legacy by damnation " was one in which the testator imposed on his heir an obligation to give the legatee the thing bequeatheds and which afforded the legatee a personal claim against the heir.

They have cast off their first faith [τ η ν π ρ ω τ η ν π ι σ τ ι ν η θ ε τ η σ α ν]. Aqetein is to set aside, do away with, reject or slight. See Mark 6:26; Luke 10:16; Hebrews 10:28. Often in LXX Pistin is pledge : so frequently in Class. with give and receive. See, for instance, Plato, Phaedr. 256 D. In LXX, 3 Macc. 3 10. The phrase pistin ajqetein N. T. o. o LXX There are, however, a number of expressions closely akin to it, as Gal. iii. 15, diaqhkhn ajqetein to render a covenant void. In LXX with oath, 9 2 Chronicles 36:13.Psalms 14:4 : He that sweareth to his neighbor kai oujk ajqetwn. Psalms 88:34; Psalms 131:11; Psalms 1 Macc. 6 62. The meaning here is, having broken their first pledge; and this may refer to a pledge to devote themselves, after they became widows, to the service of Christ and the church. The whole matter is obscure.

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