The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Timothy — Section 17

their false dootrine, were so rnthlossly im- iii. 2-1: iv. 4, 11, etc..). But he everywhere perling. Eooh of these phr1U1ca, "" pure apPai.s of thee Law A.A goo,! and holy. It a heart" and "a good conscience" and "faith man -i.e. a teacher of the Law-use 1t law- .m feigner]," seems to rebuke by contrast the fully; kn<>wing its proper use, 8.8 it followa merely ceremonial cleanness and the de.filed in the nc,x t verse. consrience and the merely nmninal Chris- Ver. !J.-A, knowing for knowin'I, A.V.; tianity of these heretical Judaizera (comp. Lmo for //,e Law, A. V.; 1'nruly for r/i,o.- Titus i. 10-Hi). 1,ulient, A. V.; and sinner• for anrl for Ver. 6.-Which things for which, A.V.; sinners, A.V.; the unholy for unholy, A.V. talking for jangling, A.V. Having swerved Law is not made for a righteous man. It is (ci,TTox/io-av-re,); literally, having missed the much better to render v&µ.or, with the A. V., mnrl,, as in the margin. H is found in "the Law." a.a e.g. Rom. ii. 12-14. The the New Testament only hne and eh. vi. whole proposition relates to the Lrtw of 21; 2 Tim. ii. 18. In Eccles. vii. 19 (21, Moses, which these teachers perverted and A.V.) and viii. 9 (11, A.V.) it is used in tried to force upon Christians, being igno- a slightly differrnt sense, "forego" aud rant that the Law was made, not for the "miss." In l'olybius and Plutarch repeat- righteous, but for sinners. For is no~ made, edly, "to miss the mark,"' "to fail," with we might renclcr doe,i not apply !o or is not the kindred lio--roxor, cio--roxfa, ao--r&x,,,µ.a. in force agaiw<!. Ke,-ra, with the dati v;i fol- These men missed the true end of the lowing (as 2 Mace. iv. 11) suggests some gospel-purity of heart and conscience and such meaning, somewhat different from the life-and only reached vain and boastful simple v&µ.o, ,c,..,.a.,. This freedom of the talking. Have turned a.side (l!£-rpcl1r.,,o-av); righteous from the Law is what ::,t. Pa.ul eh. v. 15; vi. 20 ; 2 Tim. iv. 4; Heb.' xii. 1:1; everywhere asserts (Rom. vi. B: viii. 2 ; but not elsewhere in the New Testament. It Gal. ii. 19; iii. :!5; v. 18, ttc.), the Law being is found in the active voice in the LXX., and viewed, not as a holy rule of life, but 118 a is common in all voices in classical Greek. system of pen;1llies-'' a Law of sin and Va.in talking (µ.ll-raw,\o-yia); here only in the death." That v6µ.o, hne means the Law New Testament, and not found in the of Moses is further evident from this, that LXX., but used by Strabo, Plutarch,.and in the following list the apostle clearly Porphyry. The e.djecti ve µ.a-ra,o,\&-yo, is follows the general order of the Decalogue, used in Titus i. 10, and applied especially taking first the offences against the first to those "of the cirl'umcision." The Latin table, and then sins against the fifth, sixth., equivalents are vaniloquus and vaniloquium. seventh, and ninth commanuJLenta ( compare, Uvy's description of a vaniloquus is "Maria too, ver. 11 with Rom. ii. 16). Lawler;i: terrasque i11a11i sonitu verborum complevit" (<',vi,«01S); with no special reference to ib (lib. xxxv. 48; comp. Jude 16). etymology, but meftning simply "tmns- Ver. 7.-Though they unde,·stand for un- !{l"e8Hors," 0 wicked," as Luke x.xii. 37; Act~ derstanding, A.V.; confidently affirm for ii. 23 ; 2 Thess. ii. 8 ( A. V.), and very fre- affirm, A.V. Teachers of the Law (voµ.o- quently in the LXX. Unruly (civtnro-rcl- B,6clo-1<a,\o,, as Luke v. 17; Acts v. 34). This, ,c-ro15); insubordinate, resisting lawful au again, distinctly marks the J e,viah origin of thority. In the LXX. for the Hebrew ~J/'.~:J these heretics. Though they understand, (1 Sam.ii.12,Symmachus),anu perhapsProv·. etc. So our Lord rebuked the scribes and xvi. 27. In the New Testament it is peculiar teachers of the Law in his day: "Ye do err, in this sense to the pastoral Epistles, hoeing not knowing the Seri pt11res nor the power only found here and in Titus i. ti, 10. In Heh. of God;" "Ye do greatly err" (Matt. xxii. ii. 10 it has the classical sense of "unsub- 29; Mark xii. 27; llinlt. xii. 7, etc.; compare, dued." The express application of the word too, Rom. ii. 17-2!). They confidently in Titus i. 10, to the "unruly talkers of the aflirm (B,a/3e/3awvv-ra,). Elsewhere in the circumcision,'' shows that St. Paul has them New Testament ouly in Titus iii. 8, "I in view here also. Ungodly and sinners, for will that thou affirm confi,le11tly." So in the unholy and profane. All terms im- classica.l Greek, "to maintain strongly," plying offences against the first table. 'A,re- "to be positive." This we.~ right in the /3,o-, (with the kindred a.o-e/3,,a. and cio-,/3,w) is minister of Christ d,,claring Divine truth, alwavs rendered "ungodly," "ungodliness," but very wrong in thesu vain janglers. The "to "et ungodly;" fl.µapTwAoLs, sinners. viz nature of their confident assertions is ap- agaiust God; a.vouiois, unholy (found only parent from what follows-they spoke of here and at 2 Tim. iii. 2 in the New Test,i- the Law, but not hiwfully. ment, but frequent in the LXX.) ill tbt' Ver. 8.-The Law iB good (see the oontrory to foior, holy, saintly; /3•/31J,\015 similar sta.tflment in Rom. vii. 12). The (whence /3•/3.,,,\ow, ·to profane, Matt. xii. Jew• thought that St. Paul spoke against 5; Acts xxiv. 6), profane, of persons and the Law (comp. Acts vi 13, H), because he things not cousecni.ted to God-peculiar in vindicated iii true use (Rom. x. 4 : Gal. the New Testament to the pastoral RpisUe1  4 THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. [on, L 1-20,