Il,
sSee2 Tim." ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγαθήν,ὶ ἵνα τὴν διδασκαλίαν thy? τοῦ “σωτῆρος
Iv. 14. εἰ Ἂ ἂς ms tSeer Tim.* ἡμῶν "Θεοῦ " κοσμῶσιν ἐν πᾶσιν.
iy De u Seer Tim.
ll. 9. τ 3
II. "᾿ΕἘπεφάνη γὰρ ἡ "χάρις τοῦ Θεοῦ» “ σωτήριος πᾶσιν
ν Lukei.79, ἀνθρώποις 12. 7 παιδεύουσα ἡμᾶς, ἵνα * ἀρνησάμενοι τὴν " ἀσέβειαν
xxvii. 20, καὶ τὰς ἢ κοσμικὰς ἐπιθυμίας “ σωφρόνως καὶ δικαίως καὶ “edceBas Tit. iii. 4.
w 2 Cor. ΑΝ ; Vili. 9. x Here only, N.T., Am. v. 22, Wisd. i. 14, 3 Macc. (2), 4 Macc. (2) only. y Seer Tim. i. 20. z See 1 Tim. v. 8. a See 2 Tim. 1. 16. δ Heb. ix. 1, not LXX. c Wisd. ix. 11 only. ἃ See 2 Tim. iii. 12.
1 πᾶσαν ἐνδεικ. ἀγαθην NQ*; πᾶσ. ἐνδεικ. ἀγάπην 17.
20m. τὴν KLP.
3 Ins. 4 CcDbeKLP.
4 σωτῆρος Ν᾽. τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν FG, f, 6, vg. (am. om. ἡμῶν), boh.
πᾶσαν ἐνδεικ. πραύτητα. See note on 2 Tim. iv. 14. On this use of was, see on τ Tim. i. 15. πίστιν has a qualifying adj. elsewhere, ¢.g., ἀνυπόκριτος (τ Tim. ο Ὁ Time il 5... Cf ch. 1... Εεον Jude 20), but the addition of another adj. after mwas is unusual. In Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 26 πίστις ἀγαθή is rendered by Lightfoot honest faith ; but honest fidelity would be an odd expression. Von Soden would give ἀγαθή here the sense of kind, wishing well, as in ver. 5, and as a con- trast to ἀντιλεγ., as πίστιν is to νοσφ.
W.H. suggest that the original reading "
here was πᾶσαν ἐνδεικνυμένους ἀγάπην. See apparat. crit.
διδασκαλίαν : See note on 1 Tim. 1. Io.
Θεοῦ refers to God the Father. See i.3. Von Soden takes it here as objective genitive; the διδασκαλία being set forth in vv. 11-14.
κοσμῶσιν: cf. τ Tim. ii. 9, κοσμεῖν ἑαυτάς. . . δι ἔργων ἀγαθῶν. The διδασκαλία, though really practical, can be plausibly alleged to be mere theory ; it must then, by good works, be rendered attractive to them that are without. Cf. Matt. v. 16, Phil. ii. 15.
Vv. 11-15. The justification of this in- sistence on the universal necessity for right conduct is the all-embracing scope of the saving grace of God, which has visibly appeared as a call to repentance, a help to amendment of life, and a stimu- lus to hope. Christ’s gift of Himself for us constrains us to give ourselves wholly to Him. Insist on these things, as authoritatively as possible, in every department of your teaching.
Ver. 11. The emphatic word is πᾶσιν. The connexion is with what has immedi- ately preceded. Norank or class or type of mankind is outside the saving influence of God’s grace. Chrys. concludes a striking picture of the adverse moral
environment of slaves with, “It is a difficult and surprising thing that there should ever be a good slave”’.
ἐπεφάνη: See note on 1 Tim. vi. 14. The grace of God (also iii. 7) is His kindness and love of man (iii. 4). It appeared (iii. 4) (a) as a revelation, in the Incarnation, and also (δ) in its visible results; and so it is both heard and recognised (Col. i. 6). Accordingly Barnabas could see it at Antioch (Acts xi. 23). Itis possible to stand fast in it (x Pet. v. 12), and to continue in it (Acts xiii. 43). It is given to men, to be dis- pensed by them to others (Rom. i. 5, Eph. iii. 2.7): and if men do not respond to it, they are said to fall short of τέ (Heb. xii. 15). Here it is described in its essential power and range, σωτήριος πᾶσιν ἄνθρ., . . . appeared, bringing salvation to all men (so R.V.; A.V.m). This connexion of the words is favoured by the fact that ἐπεφάνη is used abso- lutely in iii. 4.