th1Lt thou mayest war the good wo.rfare ac- tive). Both the grammar nnd the sense corrling to the tenor of them." He thus adds e')ually o.drnit the rendering "1"1tith," refer- the.t he entrusted this chnrge to 'fimothy, not ring to the preceding ,r/,nar. (Fnr the phrase. mero motu, but fl.Ccording to direct indications 1repl ,,..~w .,,.[tT"Tlv, "with respect to," comp. of lhe Holy Ghost, through the prophets of eh. vi. -1; 2 Tim. ii. 18; Titus ii. 7.) the Ohurch, which pointed out Timothy as Ver. 20.-Delivered for have delfrererl, the person who wo.s to war that good war- A.V.; might be /,aitght for may warn, A.V. fare. The words, ~va aTpaTEilr, iv a;,,.a,s T¾,v Hymenmue; probably the same as is men- 1<111\'l,v aTpa.TEla.v, might possibly depend upon tioned 2 Tim. ii. 17, 18, as holding heretical ,,.a, 1rpo11-yo6aa.s i1rl a•, meaning that those doctrine concerning the resurrection, and prophecies had this end in pointing to overthrowing the faith of some. It is an Timothy, viz. that he might war the good uncommon name, though borne by a Bishop warlare, that he might be placed in the of Alexandria in the second century, and difficult posf of aTp<1T1J""(Os, and the ;v a.,i,,.,.,, by a Bishop of Jen1salem in the third. follows rather more naturally in this case. Alexander; dnubtless the same as "Alex- But it is, perhaps, bt:tter to take them as ander the coppersmith" al. 2 Tim. iv. B. dependent upon 1rap11,,.l9eµa,. By them ( ev a.ii- I delivered unto Satan. The passnges in ,,.,.,,). Here •v may be either thecausaefficiens, Scri(Jture which throw light on this ditfkult indicating that by the influence of these pro- phrase are, chiefly, the following : the almost ph,ides 'fimothy would war the good war- identical passage, 1 Cor. v. 5; Job L 12 ; fare, or be equivalent to 1<a.Ta., "according ii. 6, 7; Luke xiii. 16; Acts v. 5, 10; x. 38; to" (see Schleusner's ' Lexicon '). xiii. 11 ; l Cor. xi. 30 ; 2 Cor. xii. 7 ; and Ver. 19.-Thrustfrom them for.put away, Heh. ii. 14. Putting these together, it ap- A.V.; made shipwreck ccncerning the faith pears that sickness and bodily infirmity for concerning faith hat1e made shipwreck, and death are, within certain limits, in the A.V. Thrust from them. The addition power of Satan to inflict. And that the "from them" is meant to give the force of the apostles were able, on fitting occasions, to middle voice as in Acts vii. 39, A.V. 'l'he hand over peccant members of the Church verb 6.1r@60µ111 occurs Acts vii. 27, 39; Rom. to this power of Satan, tl,a.t by such disci- xi. 1, 2. It is a strong expression, implying pline "the spirit might be saved." In the here the wilful resistance to the voice of case of Hymenmus and Alexnnder (as in thnt conscience. The form 1,..,,,,,9/.,, -loµa, is found, of the incestuous person 11t Corinth), the Acts xiii. 46, and frequently in the LXX. punishment incideut on this delivery to Whioh (!Iv) applies to the good conscience Satan wonltl appeo.r to have been short of only. Hence the impol"tant lesson that death, but in tlrn case of the two first not to deviations from the true faith are preceded have had the effect of bringing them to a by violations of the conscience. The surest true repentance. Might be taught (1r11,B,u- way to maintain a pure faith is to maintain 9wa,); viz. by correction and punishment, a good and tender conscience (comp. oh. as children are taught (Heb. xiL 6-8). ii. 9; John vii. 17). The faith. It is by The metaphor in the word 1<0/\a.<(>L(u" (2 Cor. no means certain that ;, 1rlaru here means xii 7) is similar. "the faith" rather than "faith" (subjeo-
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1, 2, 19, 2O.-0hurch government. St. Paul was about to commit extensiie powers in the Church to 'l'i.mothy. It was therefore necessary that he should rlefine clearly the source of his own authority. This he does very distinctly. lie was an apostle according to the commandment of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hence his power to delegate authority to his son Timothy, and hence the duty of the Church to submit to Timothy's ruling. Among the powers committed to Timothy was that of ordaining bishops and deacons by the laying on of hands (eh. iii. nnd v. 22, compared with 2 Tim. ii. 2), which seems to give us very clearly the doctrine of apostolical succession. For it should be observud that this succession is alone consistent with what St. Paul here writes. If the power to appoint and ordain their ministers had been vested by Christ's ordinance in the congregation, St. Paul would_ have been violating the rights and liberties of the Church by sending Timothy to do that which really belonged to the Ephesian congregation to do. But_ the the?ry that_ t~e i;overnment of the Church ie in the hands of those wha- have received their commission by succession from the apostles is in exact 110Cord with what St. Paul here writes to Timothy. THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY. [oB, I, 1-20,