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1 1Cor. ».7.εἷς ἀτιμίαν. 21. ἐὰν οὖν τις ᾿ἐκκαθάρῃ ἑαυτὸν ἀπὸ τούτων, ἔσται τον. xxi. 13 σκεῦος εἰς τιμήν, ἡγιασμένον.! " εὔχρηστον τῷ | δεσπότῃ, εἰς ™ πᾶν isd. xiii. 13, 2° ἔργον "' ἀγαθὸν " ἡτοιμασμένον. 22. τὰς δὲ “ νεωτερικὰς ἐπιθυμίας Tim.iv. | ye iY A ; ae ο. ΕΣ ο η φεῦγε: " δίωκε δὲ δικαιοσύνην, "πίστιν, ἀγάπην, εἰρήνην μετὰ Philem. ο a τι only. τῶν " ἐπικαλουμένων τὸν Κύριον ἐκ " καθαρᾶς "καρδίας. 23. τὰς δὲ 1See1 Tim. ι A Res Nae ἐν , w Attn 9 a vi. τ. μωρὰς καὶ " ἀπαιδεύτους ' "ζητήσεις " παραιτοῦ, εἰδὼς ὅτι γεννῶσι m 2 Tim. iii. 17, Tit. i.
16, iii. 1, see τ Tim. ii. ro. See 1 Tim. vi. II. q See r Tim. i. 14. ἘΠ, ΤΩΣ Cor. 1.2, 0 Pet. 117. v See x Tim. vi. 4. w Seer Tim. iv. 7.
n Rev. ix. 7, 15, with εἰς; cf. Tit. iii. τ.
s See 1 Tim. i. 5.
ο 3 Macc. iv. 8 only. r Acts vii. 59, ii. 21, ix. 14, 21, xxii. 16, Rom. x. 12, t Tit. iii. 9. Ἢ Here only, N.T.
lIns. καὶ ScC*DbcKLP, f, vg., sah., syrhcl, arm. 2Ins. πάντων ACFstG, 17, 31, 73, three others (FG, 73 om. foll. τῶν), 6, sah.,
syrhcl, See x Cor. i. 2.
stubble’’. See also Wisd. xv.7. Field, Notes, in loc., suggests that δεσπότης here is best rendered the owner. See notes on 1 Tim. iii. 15 and vi. 1.
Ver. 21. St. Paul drops the metaphor. The general meaning is clear enough, that a man may become “‘ heaven’s con- summate cup,” σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς (Acts ix. 15), if he ‘‘ mistake not his end, to slake the thirst of God’. When we endue the vessels with consciousness, it is seen that they may ““τίδε on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things”’ The tus has been, it is implied, among the ‘‘vessels unto dishonour’’. ‘ Paul was an earthen vessel, and became a golden one. Judas was a golden vessel, and became an earthen one”’ (Chrys.). Bengel supposes that the ἐάν τις is an exhortation to Timothy himself. This is suggested in ΚΝ. of ver. 22, ‘‘ But flee,” etc. The reference in τούτων is not quite clear. It is best perhaps to ex- plain it of the false teachers themselves, “‘vessels unto dishonour,”’ rather than of their teaching or immoral characteristics, though of course this is implied. The thoroughness of the separation from the corrupting environment of evil company is expressed by the ἐκ- and ἀπό. Where ἐκκαθαίρω occurs again, 1 Cor. v. 7, the metaphor (leaven) also refers to the re- moval of acorrupting personal element. There the person is to be expelled; here the persons are to be forsaken. ἥγια- σμένον is the equivalent in actual experi- ence of the simile σκεῦος εἰς τιμήν, as εἰς πᾶν---ἡτοιμασμένον is of εὔχρηστον τῷ δεσπότῃ. Compare i Cor. vi. 11, “And such were some of you: but ye were washed [lit. washed yourselves], but ye were sanctified”’ (ἡγιάσθητε).
ἡτοιμασμένον : ‘ Even though he do not do it, he is fit for it, and has a capa-
city for it” (Chrys.). Cf. Eph. ii. το, κτισθέντες. .. ἐπὶ ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς οἷς προητοίμασεν ὃ θεὸς ἵνα ἐν αὐτοῖς περι- πατήσωµεν, and reff.
Μετ σοι νεωτερικὰς ἐπιθυμίας: “Every inordinate desire is a youthful lust. Let the aged learn that they ought not to do the deeds of the youthful”. (Chrys.). This is sound exegesis ; yet it is reasonable to suppose that Timothy was still of an age to need the warning in its natural sense. See r Tim. iv. 12. He has just been cautioned against errors of the intellect; he must be warned also (δὲ) against vices of the blood.
φεῦγε" δίωκε δὲ, κ.τ.λ.: See note on 1 Tim. vi. 11.
εἰρήνην : to be joined closely with the following words, cf. Heb. xii. 14. While avoiding the company of evil men, he is to cultivate friendly relations with those who are sincere worshippers of the same God as himself. ot ἐπικαλούμενοι τὸν Κύριον, z.e., Christ, is almost a technical term for Christians. See reff. It comes ultimately from Joel ii. 32 (iii. 5).