1 Timothy 6:17

1 Timothy 6:17.— As the apostle had given directions concerning some of the Judaizing Christians, who attempted to enrich themselves bypreaching the gospel in a dishonest manner, he here gives directions concerning such Christians as were already possessed of riches; namely, that they should not be proud and selfish, but pious and humble towards God; generous, and readyto do good to their fellow-creatures; that, when they had done with all the possessions and concerns of the present life, they might have satisfaction in the review, and be blessed with greater and more durable possessions, 1 Timothy 6:17. And that he might leave Timothy with the strongest impressions of the folly and wickedness of the Judaizing Christians, he concludes as he had begun, with charging him to adhere to the true and simple Christian doctrine, and to reject all Jewish mixtures, 1 Timothy 6:20. Some would read the beginning of the present verse, Charge them that are rich, not to be high-minded in this world,—but to trust in the living God, &c. thus preserving the opposition between the two parts of the sentence. See 1 Corinthians 3:18.