The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Timothy — Section 19

tog8'her u heft!). Appointing me to his and was the frnit of it, and oharaoteriud ae~oe. . The A.V., putting me into the his whole afuir-Iife. mi11ulry, 11 a better rendering, because •• the Ver. 15.-Faithful ui ~ saying for tAi8 ~inietry " e_xaotly e3:preeees the prticula.r u a faithful saying, A.V. l!'aithful is the krnd of service to which the Lord appointed aaying (1runbr b >..&-yos). This formula. is pe- ~(m (see the exactly pa.ra.llel passage, Eph. culiar to the pastoral Epistles (eh.iii. 1 ; iv. 111. 7). The absence of the article is unim- 9 ; 2 Tim. ii. 11 ; Titus iii. 8), end seems to portant (Rom. xii. 7; 1 Cor. xvi. 15; 2 Tim. indicate that there were a number of pithy 1v. 11). (For the genernl phrase, comp. sayings, maxims, portions of hymns ,~ of Acts xx. 28; 1 Oor. xii. 28; or, still more catechetical teaching, current in the Churoh, exactly BB regards the grammar, l These. e.nd possihly originating in the inspired say- v. 9.) ings of the Church prophets, to which the Ver. 13.-Though I waa for who waa, A.V. apostle appeals, and to which he gives his and T.R.; howbeit for but, A.V. A blas- sa.nction. Tl,e one appealed to here would phemer (/JA.@qn;µ.ov); applied, as here, to be simply,'' Jesus Chri,t came into the worlrl persons, only in 2 Tim. iii. Z; applied to to save sinners." This, St. Paul aclds, is words, Acts vi. 11, la (T .R. ). The verb f,>..arr- worthy of all accepte.tion-by all, and with- q,71µ., ,v, 1Lnd the substantive IJ>..arrqn,µ.ia, are out e.ny reserve. Aoceptation (ci1ro8ox;)s); very common, both in the sense of "blas- only here an,! eh. iv. 9, in connection with pheming" and of "railing" or "reviling.'' the same formula. The verb ci1ro8•xoµ.11, St. Paul WBB a blasphemer because he spoke occurs in Luke viii 40; Acts ii 41; xv. 4; against the Name of Jesus, which he had xvi ii. 29 ; xxiv. 3; :nviii. 30. It contains since discovered was a NamP above all names. the idea of a glad, willing e.cceptanae (see A perseoutor (61ti11<T71s); ·only here; but the note on Acts ii. 41). So douhtless a.1ro6ox-fi verb B,w1t••u is applied to St. Paul re- also means" hearty reception." I am ohiei'; peatedly (Acts ix. 4, 5; x.xii. 4; x.xvi. 11, in respect of his having been" a blasphemer, eto.), and the liltfi1tT71s here refers possibly a persecutor, an,! injurious." That great to that very narrative. Injurious (u/Jp,rrT-/is); ■in was indeed freely forgiven by God's only here aud Rom. i. 30, where it is ren- grace, but it could never be forgotten by dered "insolent," R.V. The verb u/Jpi(,w, him who had been guilty of it. " Manet both in the New Testament and in cla•sica.l aJta. mente repostum" (comp. Eph. iii 8). Greek, mean11 to " treut or use others de- Ver. 16.-AB chief for first, A. V.; might epitefully," "to outrage and insult" them, Jesus Christ for JeJJUB Christ might, A. V.; not without personal violence (Matt. x.xii. his long-suffering for wng-mffering, A. V.; an 6; Luke xviii. 32; Acts xiv. 5; 1 Thess. ensample of for a pattern to, A.V.; unt.o ii. 2). The u/Jp,rrT-fis is one who eo treat• eternal life for to life tmerlaating, A. V. <>there. St. Paul was thinking of hi" own That in me as chief; rather, as A.V., fint; conduct toward the Christians, whom he not i.e. both in order of time, and in respect only reviled, but handled roughly and ea.at also of the greatness of the sin forgiven. into prison (Acts viii. 3; ix. 1; xxii. 19). Show forth (,v8,l!11Ta1; see 2 Tim. iv. 14, There is no English word whioh exactly note). All his long-suffering ; more ,,ro- renders u/Jp,rrr-fis, perly, as Alford, the whole long-mfferi11g; i.e. the entirety of long-suffering-all tl,at Ver. 14.-Abounded ezceedingly for waa was possible, every kind and degree of long- eueeding abunda11t, A.V. Abounded ex- suffering. 'O ,ras with the substantive oeedingly (,i,r•p.,r>,.eovarr•); only here in the denotes the whole of a thing ; rov ,rc/.vra New Testament or elsewhere except "in xp6vov, "the whole time" (Acts n. 18); Pealterio Salomonis Ps. v. 19, et in fragmento 6 1ras voµos, "the whole Law" (Gal. v. 14). HermlB ap. Fabricium Bibi. Grmc., lib. v. oap. So in the two examµles from Polybius, Tijs l" (Schleusner). But the word i,, thoroughly ,rii.<111s IV\.o')',aTfa.s and Tijs 1rtltrrJs ciToirCas, Pauline (comp. {,,,.paipoµ.a,, lnr•pau!&vw, /nrep- "the utmost unreuonableness," and " the Br1A..1u1J, U'lreoe1<Te(vw, {,,rep-,rep1t1'aEVw, U1np· utmost stro.ngeness," the construction is u,/,.S..., and other compounds with ,hrip, It exaotly the same. Long-■uffering (µ.CJXpo8u- ie further reme.rkable, ae regards u,dp itself, µ.,a); more literally, longanimity; very fre- that of the hundred and fifty-eight times (or quent both in the New Testament and in thereabout") that it ooours in tlie New Tes- the LXX. The adjective µ.,,.1<potluµos tament, one hundred and six are in St. Paul's (LXX.) is a translation of the Hebrew "i\~N, Epistles, and twelve in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and only forty in all the other o~g,~, u long:' or '' slow to anger," to which books. With faith and love, etc. The tht1 opposite 1" c:e1~ ,~p. o!vlJuµ.os (LXX.), graoe bestowed upon St. Paul at and after "short to anger," i.e.· hasty, paBBiona.te. hi• oonversion showed itself in the wooder- The verb µ.CJXpo8uµ.,w also ocours frequently, fu) tiAith and love toward J csus Christ, whom both in the New Testament and in tht1 he niid previously diHbelievud iu iind re- LXX.; 'H a.1&71"11 11o111<p0Buµ.,i, "Cha1·ity ~uf- TIMNi, whioh acoowpanied that gra.oe (i.iml) forcth loug" (1 0oz. xiii. 4). l'or u en•  THE l<'IRST EPISTLE 'l'O TIMOTHY. [OIL L 1-20,