Ver. το. φανερωθεῖσαν : See note on 1 Tim. iii. 16. Bengel calls attention to the fit juxtaposition of illustria verba: φανερωθεῖσαν, ἐπιφανείας, φωτίσαντος.
διὰ τῆς ἐπιφανείας, κ.τ.λ.: See on I Tim. vi. 14. The ἐπιφάνεια here must not be referred to the Incarnation, con- sidered as having taken place at a parti- cular moment in time. It includes it; the ἐπιφάνεια began then; and will be continued, becoming ever brighter and clearer, until its consummation, to which the term ἐπιφάνεια is elsewhere restricted.
καταργήσαντος: We cannot, because of the absence of an article before the participles, safely translate, when he brought to nought, rather than, who brought to nought. Abolished does not express the truth. Christians all ‘taste of death’’ as their Master did (John viii. 52, Heb. ii. 9), though they do not ‘“‘see”’ it; and they are confident that they too will be ‘‘saved out of death’’ (Heb. v. 7). Death for them has lost its sting (Heb. ii. 14,15). It need not cause any difficulty that here the undoing of death is spoken of as past, whereas in 1 Cor. xv. 26, 54, it is ‘‘the last enemy that shall be abolished” (see Rev. xx 14). We have a parallel in John xvi. 11, ‘‘ The prince of this world hath been judged”.
τὸν θάνατον: Alf., following Bengel, sees a special force in the art.—‘‘as if he had said Orcum illum’’.
φωτίσαντος: To be connected with διὰ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου. The Gospel is that by which the presence of Christ, the light, is apprehended. That light does not create life and incorruption: it dis- plays them.
ζωὴν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν: Immortality or Incorruption defines the life more clearly.
Ver. 11. εἰς ὃ ἐτέθην, κ.τ.λ.: See 1 Tim. ii. 7, where these words are also found, and the note on r Tim. i. 11.
Ver. 12. δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίαν: {.ε., because 1 am a preacher of the Gospel. C/. Gal. ν. τη.
οὐκ ἐπαισχύνομαι: Non confundor. I am not disappointed of my hope, as in ref.
wenlorevxa... πέπεισμαι: The per- fects have their usual force. For πέπεισ- pat see Rom. viii. 38 and note on ver. 5.
τὴν παραθήκην pov is best taken as that which I have deposited for safe
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