See also Tobit vii. 12 (pg) ὁ κύριος. .. ποιήσαι ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς ἔλεος κ. εἰρήνην and Wisd. iii. 9, iv. 15, χάρις κ. ἔλεος τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς αὐτοῦ. If one may hazard a conjecture as to what prompted St. Paul to wish mercy to Timothy rather than to Titus, it may be a subtle indication of the apostle’s anxiety as to Timothy’s administrative capacity. Another varia- tion in the salutation in Titus is the substitution of Saviour for Lord. This calls for no comment.
gi προσμεῖναι ἐν ᾿Εφέσῳ, πορευόµειος εἰς Μακε- Ἡτ Cor. xvi. A 12.2 Cor. | ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖν, 4. μηδὲ vill, ©, ix. i Matt. xv.
k x Cor. vii. το, xi. 17, t Thess. iv. 11, 2 Thess. iii. 4, 6, 10 11 Tim. vi. 3 only, not LXX.
Note the anarthrous θεὸς πατήρ as in all the Pauline salutations, with the exception of τ Thess., where we have simply χάρις ὑμῖν κ. εἰρήνη. In Colos- sians the blessing is only from God the Father. ἡμῶν is added to πατρὸς except in 2 Thess. and the Pastorals.
Vv. 3-7. THE MoriveE oF THIS LETTER: to provide Timothy with a written memo- randum of previous verbal instructions, especially with a view to novel specu- lations about the Law which sap the vitality of the Gospel ; the root of which is sincerity, and its fruit, love.
Ver. 3. καθώς: The apodosis supplied at the end of ver. 4 inthe R.V., so do I now, is feebler than the so do of the A.V. We need something more vigorous. St. Paul was more anxious that Timothy should charge some, etc., than that he should merely abide at Ephesus. This is implied in the A.V., in which so do= stay there and be a strong ruler.
An exact parallel occurs in Mark i. 2. Similar anacolutha are found in Rom. ν. 12, Gal. ii. 4, 5, 6, Eph. iii. τ.
παρεκάλεσά oe: It is far-fetched to regard this word as specially expressive of a mild command, as Chrys. suggests. παρακαλεῖν constantly occurs, and with very varying meanings, in the Pauline Epistles. διεταξάμην is used in the cor- responding place in Tit. i. 5, because there the charge concerns a series of injunctions.
προσμεῖναι: ut rvemaneres (Vulg.). The word (see Acts xviii. 18) naturally implies that St. Paul and Timothy had been together at Ephesus, and that St. Paul left Timothy there as vicar apostolic.
πορευόμενος refers to St. Paul, not to Timothy, as De Wette alleged. The grammatical proof of this is fully gone into by Winer-Moulton, Gram. p. 404, “If the subject of the infinitive is the same as that of the finite verb, any attri- butes which it may have are put in the nominative”’.
It is unnecessary here to prove that it is impossible to fit this journey of St. Paul to Macedonia, and Timothy’s stay at Ephesus connected therewith, into the period covered by the Acts.
τισίν: τινες is intentionally vague. The writer has definite persons in his mind, but for some reason he does not
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m Acts viii: ™ προσέχειν " μύθοις καὶ "γενεαλογίαις " ἀπεράντοις, αἵτινες “ ἐκ-
6, 10, 11, XVi. 14, I Tim. 111. 8,iv. I, 13. Tit. i. 14, Heb. ii. 1, vii. 13, 2 Peter i. 19. Wisd. xvii. 4, Ecclus. xx. 19. Maccoll. ο s 1 Cor. ix. 17, Eph. i. 10, iii. 2, 9, Col. i. 25.
q Here only, not LXX, see τ Tim. vi. 4. t See ver. 1.
ζητήσεις ! " παρέχουσι μᾶλλον ἢ *oikovopiay” Θεοῦ τὴν ‘ ἐν ‘ πίστει.
ΐ ὩΣ Tim. iv. 7, 2 Tim. iv. 4, Tit. i. 14, 2 Pet. i. 16, ο Tit. iii. 9 only, not LXX,
p Here only, N.T., Job xxxvi. 26, 3 ri Tim. vi. 17, Tit. ii. 7, εἴς;
1 So WA, 17, three others; ζητήσεις DFGKLP. 2 So SAFGKLP, boh., syrhcl-txt, arm.; οἰκοδομίαν Dc, 192, Dam. txt; οἰκοδομήν D*, Iren., go., syrpesh and hel-mg; aedificationem ἃ, f, g, m5°, vg. See Eph. iv. 29.