ii. 17. — Xpiffrou 'l7j<rou, Christ Jesus1) Paul often, especially when writing to Timothy, puts the surname Christ before the name Jesus, in respect of [as having a view to] the promises of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah, which were fulfilled in Jesus and were well known to Timothy, 2 Tim. iii. 1 5.
3. K«0w£, even as) The Protasis ; the Apodosis is at ver. 18. [In the meantime Paul refutes those who taught other doctrine, by the very striking example of his own conversion. — V. g.]
There are three divisions of this epistle :
I. THE INSCRIPTION, i. 1, 2.
II. THE INSTRUCTION or TIMOTHY in regard to the holy administration of the church affairs at Ephesus in the absence of Paul : where
1) In general, he commits to him a charge to be delivered
to those who erroneously taught the law, the sum of the Gospel being established and confirmed by his own example, ver. 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 18, 19.
2) In particular,
1) He prescribes the order of prayer, ch. ii. 1, 2,
chiefly to men, ver. 8 ; moreover to women good works, ver. 9, 10, with modesty, ver. 11, 12.
2) He enumerates the requisite qualifications of a
bishop, iii. 1, 2.
And also the duties of deacons and women, ver. 8, 9, 11, 12, 13.
3) He explains what Timothy ought to teach, after
he had very weightily set forth the most mo mentous points, ver. 14-iv. 3; in 4 and 5, also what he ought to avoid, and what he ought to follow, 7, 8, 12, 13 :
Then how he should deal with men and women, v. 1, 2 ;
With widows, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16;
1 So the order of Xp/trrov '!>J<TO£ stands in AD(A)G/<7 Vulg. But other MSS. of Vulg., Orig. 2,7396, and Rec. Text, read '!Wo5 Xpt<rrov.— ED.