10. Tidvruv ruv xaKZv, of all evils) For it destroys faith, the root of all that is good : at first sight, the love of money seems to take away the nutriment or food that supports many crimes, as luxury, wantonness, etc. ; but it is in reality the root of all evils. All evils in ver. 9 are comprehended under temptation, a snare, lusts, destruction, perdition ; although the article ruv does not precisely relate to those evils, but is added to -ravrwv, according to custom, for the purpose of amplifying or heighten ing the effect, without its relative power. — piXapyvpia, the love of money) When money is loved for itself, it is not used for procur ing " food and raiment." — yg) ptXapyvpiag, viz. apyvpov. — r/i/sg) some: the Ephesians, ch. v. 15. — opeyof&evoi, having coveted) ch. iii. 1, note [having grasped at]. — btivmig croXXa/s, with many sor- roivs) of the conscience, producing remorse for property badly acquired ; also of the mind, urging to the laying up of more. The remedy of these sorrows is faith.
11. Tn avdpuxe rou ©eoD) 0 man of God. So the LXX. for the Hebrew, man of God, i.e. a prophet, a mediating messenger of God to men, one removed from earthly things. — ravra <pt\jyt, flee these things) He resumes, after the parenthesis, the words which he had spoken at the end of ver. 5. Therefore the ex pression, these things, is to be referred to ver. 4, 5 : for both enumerations form an evident antithesis [to what follows in ver. 11] : to this antithesis y?6<e, follow, belong. — dixaioffvvqv, righteous ness) This comprehends all the other things, and is again put in the first place, 2 Tim. ii. 22. — tvffe&iav, godliness) The antithesis is the abuse of godliness, ver. 5. — -r/Vr/v, dyd^v, faith, love) Their antitheses are envy, strife, ver. 4. — UTO/^OV^V, patience) by which even calumnious railings are endured, ibid. — -rpaor^ra, meekness) by which evil surmisings are overcome, ibid.
12. Tbv xa\bv dyuva, the good fight) In antithesis to strifes of ivords, ver. 4. — J$r/Xa/3oD, lay hold of) as something that is within reach and near at hand. Leave to others their own questions, ibid. A Metonymy of the consequent for the antecedent, with the argument drawn from what is easy [laying hold of eternal life is easy as contrasted with the questions and strifes in ver. 4]. The same expression is found at ver. 19. It is a simile taken from the race-course and the prizes ; comp. 2 Tim. iv. 7, etc. —
%ai w/AoXoy^rfas, thou hast been called and hast professed}