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(2Ti 4:21; 2Ti 1:4, 8.) Timothy is asked to come to be a comfort to Paul, and also to be strengthened by Paul, for carrying on the Gospel work after Paul's decease.
with all purity--respectful treatment of the other sex will promote "purity."
These truths, to the exclusion of those useless and even injurious teachings (1Ti 4:1-8), while weighing well thyself, charge also upon others.
our brother Timothy--So Paul, 1Co 4:17; 2Co 1:1; Col 1:1; 1Th 3:2. is set at liberty--from prison. So Aristarchus was imprisoned with Paul. Birks translates, "dismissed," "sent away," namely, on a...
Now--rather, "But." Therefore Timothy was not the bearer of the Epistle; for it would not then be said, "IF Timothy come." He must therefore have been sent by Paul from Ephesus before this Epistle...
"And moreover," &c. [Alford]. be proved--not by a period of probation, but by a searching inquiry, conducted by Timothy, the ordaining president (1Ti 5:22), whether they be "blameless"; then when...
Wherefore--because of our earnest love to you (1Th 2:17-20). forbear--"endure" the suspense. The Greek is literally applied to a watertight vessel. When we could no longer contain ourselves in our...
For--reason of the precept; the original order of creation. Adam...first--before Eve, who was created for him (1Co 11:8, 9).
For--Greek, "But." the church--rather, "a church" or congregation. How shall he who cannot perform the lesser function, perform the greater and more difficult?
afflictions--"sufferings." which--Greek, "such as." in Antioch--of Pisidia (Ac 13:14, 50, 51). Iconium--(Ac 14:1-5). Lystra--(Ac 14:6, 19). what--How grievous. out of...all...Lord delivered me...
these things--just now spoken (1Ti 5:5, 6). that they may be blameless--namely, the widows supported by the Church.
Greek, "For I am already being offered"; literally, as a libation; appropriate to the shedding of his blood. Every sacrifice began with an initiatory libation on the victim's head (compare Note,...
quickeneth all things--that is, "maketh alive." But the oldest manuscripts read, "preserveth alive"; as the same Greek means in Ac7:19; compare Ne 9:6. He urges Timothy to faithfulness here by the...
For this came--that ye may the better "be followers of me" (1Co4:16), through his admonitions. sent...Timotheus--(1Co 16:10; Ac 19:21, 22). "Paul purposed...when he had passed through Macedonia and...
(See on 2Co 13:14.) Paul ends as he began (1Th 1:1), with "grace." The oldest manuscripts omit "Amen," which probably was the response of the Church after the public reading of the Epistle. The...
Translate as Greek, "They all" (namely, who are now with me, Php 1:14, 17; Php 4:21: such Demas, then with him, proved to be, Col 4:14; compare 2Ti 4:10; Phm 24). seek their own--opposed to Paul's...
an elder--in age; probably not an elder in the ministry; these latter are not mentioned till 1Ti 5:17, "the elders that rule." Compare Ac 2:17, "your old men," literally, "elders." Contrasted with...
no longer--as a habit. This injunction to drink wine occasionally is a modification of the preceding "keep thyself pure." The presbyter and deacon were enjoined to be "not given to wine" (1Ti 3:3,...
Wherein--in proclaiming which Gospel. suffer trouble--literally, "evil." I am a sufferer of evil as though I were a doer of evil. bonds--(2Ti 1:16). word...not bound--Though my person is bound, my...
If a man...purge himself from these--The Greek expresses "If one (for example, thou, Timothy) purify himself (so as to separate) from among these" (vessels unto dishonor). sanctified--set apart as...
"I have striven the good strife"; the Greek is not restricted to a fight, but includes any competitive contest, for example, that of the racecourse (1Ti 6:12 [Alford]; 1Co 9:24, &c.; Heb 12:1, 2)....
The ear brooks not what is opposed to the man's lusts. turned--Greek, "turned aside" (1Ti 1:6). It is a righteous retribution, that when men turn away from the truth, they should be turned to...
For--confirming the reasonableness of "contentment." and it is certain--Vulgate and other old versions support this reading. The oldest manuscripts, however, omit "and it is certain"; then the...
But--Though they err in this, there is a sense in which "piety is" not merely gain, but "great means of gain": not the gaining which they pursue, and which makes men to be discontented with their...
some...as though I would not come--He guards against some misconstruing (as by the Spirit he foresees they will, when his letter shall have arrived) his sending Timothy, "as though" he "would not...
truce-breakers--rather as the Greek is translated in Ro 1:31, "implacable." false accusers--slanderers (1Ti 3:11; Tit 2:3). incontinent, fierce--at once both soft and hard: incontinently indulging...
Which some professing--namely, professing these oppositions of science falsely so called. erred--(See on 1Ti 1:6; 1Ti 2:11)--literally, "missed the mark" (2Ti3:7, 8). True sagacity is inseparable...
my own son--literally, "a genuine son" (compare Ac 16:1; 1Co4:14-17). See Introduction. mercy--added here, in addressing Timothy, to the ordinary salutation, "Grace unto you (Ro 1:7; 1Co 1:3, &c.),...
Him would Paul have to go forth with him--This is in harmony with all we read in the Acts and Epistles of Paul's affectionate and confiding disposition. He had no relative ties which were of...