a Seer Tim. 1.1.
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τῇ > @2 Ίαν eden «dod ο 4» 5 / b Rom. xv.” Θεοῦ κατ᾽ “ἐπαγγελίαν "ζωῆς τῆς “ἐν “Χριστῷ “᾿Ιησοῦ 2. Τιμοθέῳ
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ς 1 Tim. iv. 8
Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ 3
ἃ Rom. viii. 2. i. 12.
81 Cor. iv. 14, 17, Eph. v. 1, see 1 Tim. i. 2. h Acts xxiv. 14, xxvii. 23, Rom. i. 9, Phil. iti. 3.
Tod Κυρίου ἡμῶν.
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f See 1 Tim. i. 2.
g See 1 Tim. i Seer Tim. v. 4.
Κι Tim. iii. 9.
1ησ. Χριστ. AL, 37, most others, vg., go., syrhcl, arm.
380 NcADFGKL, d, f, g, vg., go., sah., boh., syrhcl, arm.; Κυρίον “Ino. Χριστ. ΑΝ, 17, 37 (so also two cursives, syrpesh, which om. foll. τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν).
3 Add pov D*, 17, one other, ἆ, e, fuld., go., sah.
Ver. I. ἀπόστολος Xp. “Ino. See note on i Tim. i. 1.
διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ: This formula is found also in 1 and 2 Cor. Eph. and Col. See note on 1 Tim. i. 1, where it is pointed out that while the same ἐπιταγή may be said to be issued by God the Father and God the Son, θέλημα is al- ways used of the Father’s eternal purpose as regards the salvation of man (Rom. Π. 18. χα 23, 2 Cor. viii. 5; Gal. 1.4; Eph. ᾿Ξ, ΣΙ: σου. ο, ἵν. τς 1 Thess.iiv. 3, v. 18, etc.). St. Paul believed that his own commission as an apostle was a part of God’s arrangements to this end, one of the ways in which the Will manifested itself.
κατ᾽ ἐπαγγελίαν ζωῆς, κιτ.λ.: To be connected with ἀπόστολος. His apostle- ship was for the accomplishment of the promise, etc. See Rom. i. 5, ἐλάβομεν . . . ἀποστολὴν els ὑπακοὴν πίστεως ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. For the force of κατά with acc. see Winer-Moulton, Gram. p. 502. The notion is more largely ex- pressed in the corresponding passage of Tit. (i. 2), ἐπ᾿ ἐλπίδι ζωῆς αἰωνίου ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο . . « θεός. We must not suppose that there is any limitation in the reference of the expression here. The mention of “the promise of the life which is in Christ, Jesus’’ (Gal. ii. 19,
20) is not intended as a consolation to Timothy (as Chrys., Bengel), nor was it even specially suggested by his own near approaching death. The preciousness of that promise is never wholly absent from the minds of Christians ; though of course it comes to the surface of our conscious- ness at crises when death is, or seems to be, imminent.
Ver. 2. ἀγαπητῷ: On the variation here from γνησίῳ, which occurs in τ Tim. i. 2 and Tit. 1. 4, see the) note jini) the former place. Ver. 5 (‘‘the unfeigned faith that is in thee”) proves that St. Paul did not wish to hint that Timothy had ceased to be his γνήσιον τέκνον. Timothy is St. Paul’s τέκνον ἀγαπητόν also in 1 Cor. iv. 17. ἄγαπητός is com- plete in itself: it does not require the explanatory addition, ἐν πίστει, or κατὰ κοινὴν πίστιν.
χάρις, κ.τ.λ.: See note on 1 Tim. i. 2.
Vv. 3-7. I know that your weak point is deficiency in moral courage. Be braced, therefore, by the assurance that I am constantly thinking with thankful- ness and prayer about your genuine and inborn faith; and by the fact that the gift of the Holy Spirit which you re- ceived at.ordination was that of power and love and discipline.
Ver. 3. χάριν ἔχω: The expression of thanksgiving in the exordium of an