The apostle is here purposely specify- ing the most extreme violations of law, as samples (kal εἴ τι ἕτερον) of what disregard of law may lead to. The healthy, wholesome teaching of Christ is of course in opposition to such enor- mities; it is also in opposition to the false teachers ; these teachers have failed to attain to a pure heart, etc. Conse- quently, although professing to teach the Law, they find themselves in op- position to the essential spirit of law. Let them, and those who listen to them, take care lest their teaching inevitably issue in similar enormities.
Ver. το. ἀνδραποδισταῖς, plagiariis (Vulg.), includesall whoexploit other men and women for their own selfish ends ; as πόρνοις and ἀρσενοκοίταις include all improper use of sexual relations.
διδασκαλία means the body of doc- trine, the apostolic Summa Theologie. The noun is used absolutely, 1 Tim. vi. I, ΟΙ with varying epithets: ὑγιαίνουσα, sana (here, 2 Tim. iv. 3; Tit. i. 9, 11. 1) ; καλή, bona (1 Tim. iv. 6); κατ᾽ εὐσέ- βειαν, secundum pietatem (1 Tim. vi. 3) ; µου (2 Tim. iii. το); τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν θεοῦ (Tit. ii. 10).
It means the act of teaching in Rom. ΧΗ η, αν. αντ ims ἵν. 13, τό, ν. 17, 2 Tim. iii. 16, Tit. ii. 7. The term occurs fifteen times in the Pastoral Epistles in a technical Christian sense. This is in the writer’s mind even in τ Tim. iv. 1, διδασκαλίαις δαιμονίων. It is found four times in the other Pauline Epistles. Of these Rom. xii. 7 is the nearest ap- proach to the special connotation here.
With ὑγιαίνουσα (see reff.) compare
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