words, ch. vi. 3 ; 2 Tim. i. 13 ; and to be sound in regard to believers, Tit. i. 13, ii. 2. The contrary is, votuv, morbid ["doting"], ch. vi. 4 ; a canker, 2 Tim. ii. 17.
11. Kara, according to) This is construed with sound doc trine, ver. 10. Paul hereby establishes the authority of his own ' commandment.' Those who know the glory of God from the Gospel, vehemently detest all kinds of profligacy. The law is thus established by faith. Or else Kara is construed with Xpqrai, if a man use it, ver. 8 ; although I know not whether it can be said, that we must use the law according to the Gospel ; or with tffarsus, from faith, ver. 5. — r^c dofyg, of the glory) Glory redounds to the Gospel from the Divine blessedness, and thence there results ' soundness' of doctrine. — rot paxapiovj of the blessed) Tke same epithet is applied to God, ch. vi. 15. A peculiar phrase, indicating immortality and supreme happiness, which inest powerfully move men to confess the Gospel. The highest pinnacle of praise is blessedness ; comp. notes on Chrysostom de Sacerdotio, p. 371. The Blessed blesses : thence He is called the Saviour, ver. 1. — o eiriffrevQriv lyw, with which I was entrusted) Tit. i. 3. This sets forth the peculiar and extraordinary privi lege of Paul, Rom. xv. 16 ; Eph. iii. 8 ; Col. i. 25.
12. xdpiv g%w, / thank) A modal expression. [See Append, on Sermo ModalisJ] These are correlatives : Christ entrusted Paul with the Gospel : Paul, being " accounted faithful," * thanks' Christ. He thanks Him at ver. 17; and in all his epistles and in their introductions. — ivduva^ffavn, who hath en dued me with power) True conversion and calling confer power, Rom. v. 6. — T/tfrov /AS riyfitaro, counted me faithful) A Metonymy of the antecedent for the consequent ; i.e. He hath entrusted to me the office of the Gospel ministry : fepsvos, while he put (in that He put me), denotes the very act. The fact that He en trusted the ministry to me, is the moral aspect : the fact that He put me into it, is as it were the physical aspect of His act. In the phrase, He counted me faithful, we have an example of £flfftMr<Kra6f/a (the actions of men attributed to God). For if I count any one faithful, and trust him, this is a kind of thing- opposite of actual knowledge.1 But the Divine judgment con-
1 That is to say, Trust in the faithfulness of a man can only strictly ex ist on the part of man. God knows all that is in man, and what he is