With elders, ver. 17, 18;
With offenders, ver. 20, 21 ;
With Timothy himself, ver. 22, 23 ;
With those of whom he is in doubt, ver. 24, 25;
With servants, vi. 1, 2.
4) THOSE WHO TEACH OTHERWISE are reproved, ver. 3, 4, 6, 7 ; but Timothy is admonished and incited forward, ver, 11, 12, and a charge is given to him, ver. 13, 14; and precepts are prescribed to be enforced upon the rich, ver. 17, 18.
to abide) The same word occurs in Acts xviii. 18. The presence of good men is a restraint upon the wicked. Timothy at Ephesus, Titus at Crete, were not bishops, but were directors of the bishops, and, so to speak, Vicars Apostolic.— w erspodidaffnahsiv, to teach no other doctrine) than that which I have taught. Let them not substitute anything else for it, let them not add [liter, impart by rubbing, ' affricent'] aught to it. Comp. the address of Paul to these same Ephesians, Acts xx. 28, 29, 30. The same word occurs, ch. vi. 3, where those things which are contrary [to wholesome doctrine] are condemned, just as at the beginning of the epistle, the things which are good are com mended. Even the things which seem to be only different (" other doctrine"), carry with them something which is posi tively contrary [to the true doctrine]. They taught the law, in opposition to the Gospel, ver. 7, 11.
4. Myds vpofftxsiv, nor give heed) in teaching. — /uvdoig xai ysvsa- Xoyiaig, to fables and genealogies) A Hendiadys. Comp. on fables, ch. iv. 7 ; 2 Tim. iv. 4 ; Tit. i. 14 ; on genealogies, ib. ch. iii. 9. And because these two things are joined together, and be cause those who taught such doctrines boasted of the law, it is evident that the apostle is not speaking of the genealogies of the Jewish families, but of the genealogies of the osons, against which Irenaeus and Tertullian quote this very passage. Nay, even Paul opposes to them the true consideration of the aeons, ver. 17 [r& (SaffiXsT TUV aluvtov — d/i^a et$ TO-J$ aiuvag ruv aluvuv, " to the King