19. nptfffiurzpov, an elder) ver. 17. — xar^yop/av, accusation) According to the law of Moses, a private person might be sum moned, but not condemned, when there was only one witness : Paul directs that an elder should not even be summoned; for both his character as an innocent person stands higher, and he is more exposed to envy and calumny. — ^ napuS's^ov, do not receive) Timothy had therefore the power of judging in the Church, ver. 21, 24.
20. Tov$ aftapravovrag) them that sm, the elders convicted by witnesses. The others are contradistinguished from those. — o/ XO/TO/) the others in the flock, Vho have either committed the same sin, or lest they should commit it. — <p6j3ov, fear) suitable to those who are prepared to sin.
21. 'Ei/oikr/ov, before) Paul presents vividly to Timothy the last judgment, in which God will be revealed, and Christ will be seen face to face with His angels; comp. 2 Tim. iv. 1. And yet the words, face to face, do not shut out reference to the pre sent time, ver. 4 (evuiriw roD 0soD) ; 2 Cor. viii. 21. See ch. vi. 13, etc. — xal Kvpiov, and the Lord) The article is not added, though it is immediately added with respect to the angels. Therefore the appellations, God and Lord, refer to one subject [before Him who is at once God and Lord, Jesus Christ] j1 comp., however, 2 Tim, iv. I.2 The old reading has not Kup/ov.3 — sxXexruv) An epithet, which sharpens the reverence of Timothy ; sKXsxrb$, choice, 1 Pet. ii. 6. — xnptg vpoKpfaaroi) ^plg roD fpoftsrug xai di^a KSxpifAevqg j9cuX)}£ fpSt£ai ffs r/.4 Glos. ap. Pricseum. — Kpoxpifta, prejudice (prejudging), is the failing of him who determines, before the matter fully opens itself out ; ver. 22,
1 This is a principle laid down by Bishop Middleton, that where the one article precedes two appellatives, they must refer to one and the same person ; a most important canon against Socinians. See Tit. ii. 13. — ED.
IVUKIOV TOV &soi>, xai X0taTov ' lyaov. But Middleton's canon does not ap ply there ; for Xptarov ' Iwov are used as proper names, not appellatives. So here, too, if the Kvpiov be not read. Therefore Qeov is God the Father. — ED.
8 Wherefore it is omitted in the Germ. Vers., which follows the margin of both Ed.— E. B.
AD(A) corrected, Qfg Vulg., Hilar. 328, Lucif. omit Kvpiov. Rec. Text has no good authority for it. — ED.
4 i.e. Without thy doing aught precipitately and apart from decided de liberation or counsel.