ἔλεγξον : Taking this in the sense convict, Chrys. comments thus on the three imperatives, ‘‘ After the manner of physicians, having shown the wound, he gives the incision, he applies the plaister”’.
ἐπιτίμησον: ‘‘ The strict meaning of the word is ‘to mete out due measure,’ but in the N.T. it is used only of cen- sure’’. So Swete (on Mark i. 25), who also notes that with the exceptions of this place and Jude ο, it is limited to the Synoptists.
παρακάλεσον: See on i Tim. iv. 13.
ἐν πάσῃ μακροθυμίᾳ καὶ διδαχῇ : This qualifies each of the three preceding im- peratives; and πάσῃ belongs to διδαχῇ as well as to µακρ., with the utmost patience and the ‘most painstaking in- struction.
διδαχῇ: (teaching) seems to point more to the act, διδασκαλία (doctrine) to the substance or result of teaching” (Ell.). In the only other occurrence of διδαχή in the Pastorals, Tit. i. 9, it means doctrine.
Ver. 3. ὑγιαινούσης διδασκαλίας : See note on 1 Tim. i. Io.
i8ias: ἴδιος here, as constantly, has merely the force of a possessive pronoun. See on 1 Tim. iii. 4.
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ἐπισωρεύσουσιν: coacervabunt (Vulg.). «Ἢ 8 shews the indiscriminate multitude of the teachers, as also their being elected by their disciples”? (Chrys.).
κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν : prurientes aurt- bus (Vulg.). The same general idea is expressed in πάντοτε μανθάνοντα (iil. 7). Their notion of a teacher was not one who should instruct their mind or guide their conduct, but one who should gratify their esthetic sense. Cf. Ezek. xxxiil. 32,“ Thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, ἃς." The desire for pleasure is insati- able, and is increased or aggravated by indulgence; hence the heaping up of those who may minister to it. Ell. quotes ap- propriately from Philo, Quod Det. Pot. 21, ἀποκναίουσι γοῦν [ot σοφισταὶ) ἡμῶν τὰ ὦτα.
Ver. 4. The ears serve as a passage through which the truth may reach the understanding and the heart. Those who starve their understanding and heart have no use for the truth, and do not, as they would say, waste hearing power on it.
μύθους : See note on 1 Tim. 1. 4.
Ver. 5. wade: Be sober (R.V.). So- brius esto (d). vigila (Vulg.) [but Vulg. Clem. inserts sobrius esto at end of verse]. So A.V., watch, and Chrys. Sober is certainly right in τ Thess. v. 6, 8; but in 1 Pet. i. 13, iv. 7, and perhaps v. 8, to be waichful or alert seems more appropriate.
ἔργον εὐαγγελιστοῦ: The office of evangelist is mentioned Acts xxi. 8, Eph. iv. αι. The evangelist was an itinerant preacher who had not the supervising functions. of an apostle, nor the inspiration of a prophet; though both apostle and prophet did, inter alia, the work of evangelist. This was in all like- lihood the work to which Timothy had originally been called. St. Paul here reminds him that in the faithful perform-