The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Timothy — Section 83

"fftbles" (ob. i. 4; 2 Tim. Iv. 4; Titns i. H; ing is donhtfol. The sense of the T.R., 2 Pet. i. 16), childish legends anil doctrines "suffer reproach," sr·ems preferable, e.n<I some of them directed eHpecially to enforcind the expression more forcible, as conveyin~ certain rules about eating and drinking, and eo11,elh1ng more than mere labour-the bitter other "bodily exercises," which St. Paul reproaches and persecutions which he en- utterly discountenances, and contrasts with dured (2 Tim. iii. 11 ; 1 Cor. iv. 9-13; 2 Cor. that "good doctrine" which he directs xi . .13--27); and e.11 because of his firm trnst Timothy continually to teach. Thi• would iu the promises of the living God. Onr hope account, naturally, for the introduction of aet on. Rather a cl nmsy phrase, though it the phrase, -y6µva.(, u,a.vTOv. expr,-sses accurately the i,>..,r[1<aµ,v ;.,,.1 0«.:; Ver. 8.-ls profitable for a little for pro- (own; but it was har<lly worth altering th.- fiteth little. A.V.; for for unto, A.V.; which A. V., "we trnst in the living God." In for that, A. V. Bodily exercise. Exercise eh. v. 5 we have 1iA,r11<<v i,d 0,&v, with no which only affects the body, such as those appreciable difference of sense. Specie.lly rules which the Jewish ascetics enforced. of them that believe; and therefore we who fvµva.uCa only occurs here in the New Tes- believe have spedal cause to hope in him tament., and not at all in tile LXX., but is and to trust his prom iees. not uncommon in classical Greek. Another Ver. 11.--Comme.nd ( 1rapct-y-y•AA•; see eh. form is -y{,µ.vauir, and -yvµvcf.uwv is the place i. 3, note; v. 7; vi. 1:1, 17). It is need verv where such -y{,µvauir takes place. For a frequently in the Gospels of onr Lord.-, little; margin, for little, which is the beet comme.111le to the apostles and others, and by rendering. npbs 01..C-yov, as Ellicott well re- St. Paul of his own apostolic directions to marks, may mean either "for a little while" the Churches (1 These. iv. 11 ; 2 These. iii. or" for a little" (better, "for little"), but 4, 6, etc.). cannot mean both. Tile contrast with ,rp~• Ver. I 2.-..fo enaample to them that be- ,rc/.v-ra determines its meaning here to be lieve for an =mple of the belieuers, A. V.; " for little," which is exactly the same manner of life for wnversation, A. V. ; love meaning as the A.V. Promise of the life. for charity, A.V.; R.T. omits in ,pirit, The genitive here is the genitive of the A... V. and T.R. Let no man despise thy thing promised, as in Acts ii. 33; Gal. iii. youth (comp. I Cor. xvi. 11; Titus ii. 15). 14; 2 Tim. i. l. And the thing promised The construction of the sentence is me.ni- is "the life that now is," meaning, of course, fe~tly that a<lopted in the A... V. and followed its enjoyment in peace and happiness ( comp. in the R.V. Timothy wonld certainly be Ps. :u:xiv. 12 [xxxiii., LXXJ., where cl under forty years e.t this time, and might Bb.wv (orf,v is parallel to a1•a,rwv -1,µ,pa.s ... be not above thirty-five. Either age woul<l a-ya9cf.s); and "that which is to come," viz. be decidedly early for so responsible an offie.- eternal life). There is no occasion to strain -one in which he would have many elders after greater grammatical precision. There (,rp,uf',6-r,po,) under him (eh. v. 1, 17, 19). is no contradiction between this statement An ense.mple (T{,.,,.o,); properly the original of the happiness of a godly life and St. "pattern" or "model n after which anything Paul's statement in 1 Cor. xv. 19. Another is made or fashioned ; hence e. •· pattern " possible way of construing the words is that or " example." It is used in the same sense of Bishop Ellicott and the • Speaker's Com- e.e here in Phil. iii. 17; 1 These. i. 7; 2 mentary;' "Having the promise of life, both Thees. iii. 9; Titus ii. 7; l Pet. v. 3. Them the present and the future." But in this that believe. The R.V. has apparently so case we should ho.ve had T,js TE viiv 1<al, ,c.T.A. tro.nele.ted Twv ..-,.,..,, in order to asei.milnt.- Ver. 9.-Faithful ia the saying for thia is it with the 1nuToiv in ver. 10. But ol m<rToi a faithful saying, A.V. (see eh. i. Iii, note). are simply "believers," or " Christil!.ll8 " - Here, however, the1r,u-ril• >..&-yo• is tl,o.t which " the flock," as St. Peter l,as it, and had precedes, viz. that "godliness is profitable better l,e so rendered. Timothy is exhorted fur all things," etc., whioh we thus learn we.a to make it impossible for 11ny one to question a proverbial saying. his authority on the eeore of l,is youth by Ver. 10.--To this end for therefore, A.V.; being o. model of the Christian graces require,! labour and strive for both labour and 81'.ffer in believers. In word. Specially in his reproach, A.V. and T.R.; have our hope set teaching. The exhortation to Titus (ii. l, 7, on for tTUBt in, A.V.; them for those, A.V. eto.) is very similar," Speak thou the things For to this end ; or, with this in vie10. He which befit the sound doctrine. . . . In i.ll thus justifies hie assertion that the saying things showing thyself an ens11mple of good he ho.d quoted is a faithful one, by showing works; in thy dootrini, showing uncom ,pt- that the promise e.nd all that it contained ness, gravity, sound speech (>..&,,ov /ry,ij)" wo.s the grounJ of all his labours nn,I those etc. (comp. too oh. v. 17; 2 Tim. i. 13). of hie fellow-labourers in the gospel. Strive Manner of life ( 11J1a.<rTpo</>ii ; see eh. iii. 15, (a-yc.,v,(&,..Ba.); BO many good manuscripts, note). Purity (&-yv•lt); elsewhere in the iu&ead of T.B. civ«61(&,..Ba; but the read- New Testament only in eh. v. 2, where it  £HE FIRST EPISTLE ·ro TIMOTHY. [oH. [V. 1-18.