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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 Thessalonians 2 Timothy
1 Timothy 2
Verse 1. I exhort therefore - Seeing God is so gracious. In this chapter he
gives directions,
1. With regard to public prayers
2. With regard to doctrine. Supplication is here the imploring help
in time of need: prayer is any kind of offering up our desires to
God. But true prayer is the vehemency of holy zeal, the ardour of
divine love, arising from a calm, undisturbed soul, moved upon by
the Spirit of God. Intercession is prayer for others. We may
likewise give thanks for all men, in the full sense of the word, for
that God "willeth all men to be saved," and Christ is the Mediator
of all.
Verse
2. For all that are in authority - Seeing even the lowest country
magistrates frequently do much good or much harm. God supports
the power of magistracy for the sake of his own people, when, in
the present state of men, it could not otherwise be kept up in any
nation whatever. Godliness - Inward religion; the true worship of
God. Honesty - A comprehensive word taking in the whole duty
we owe to our neighbour.
Verse
3. For this - That we pray for all men. Do you ask, "Why are not
more converted?" We do not pray enough. Is acceptable in the
sight of God our saviour - Who has actually saved us that believe,
and willeth all men to be saved. It is strange that any whom he has
actually saved should doubt the universality of his grace!
Verse
4. Who willeth seriously all men - Not a part only, much less the
smallest part. To be saved - Eternally. This is treated of, ver. 5, 6.
And, in order thereto, to come - They are not compelled. To the
knowledge of the truth - Which brings salvation. This is treated
of, ver. 6, 7.
Verse
5. For - The fourth verse is proved by the fifth; the first, by the
fourth. There is one God - And they who have not him, through
the one Mediator, have no God. One mediator also - We could not
rejoice that there is a God, were there not a mediator also; one
who stands between God and men, to reconcile man to God, and
to transact the whole affair of our salvation. This excludes all
other mediators, as saints and angels, whom the Papists set up and
idolatrously worship as such: just as the heathens of old set up
many mediators, to pacify their superior gods. The man -
Therefore all men are to apply to this mediator, "who gave
himself for all."
Verse
6. Who gave himself a ransom for all - Such a ransom, the word
signifies, wherein a like or equal is given; as an eye for an eye, or
life for life: and this ransom, from the dignity of the person
redeeming, was more than equivalent to all mankind. To be
testified of in due season - Literally, in his own seasons; those
chosen by his own wisdom.
Verse
8. I will - A word strongly expressing his apostolical authority.
Therefore - This particle connects the eighth with the first verse.
That men pray in every place - Public and private. Wherever men
are, there prayer should be. Lifting up holy hands - Pure from all
known sin. Without wrath - In any kind, against any creature. And
every temper or motion of our soul that is not according to love is
wrath. And doubting - Which is contrary to faith. And wrath, or
unholy actions, or want of faith in him we call upon, are the three
grand hindrances of God's hearing our petitions. Christianity
consists of faith and love, embracing truth and grace: therefore the
sum of our wishes should be, to pray, and live, and die, without
any wrath or doubt.
Verse
9. With sobriety - Which, in St. Paul's sense, is the virtue which
governs our whole life according to true wisdom. Not with curled
hair, not with gold - Worn by way of ornament. Not with pearls -
Jewels of any kind: a part is put for the whole. Not with costly
raiment - These four are expressly forbidden by name to all
women (here is no exception) professing godliness, and no art of
man can reconcile with the Christian profession the wilful
violation of an express command.
Verse
12. To usurp authority over the man - By public teaching.
Verse
13. First - So that woman was originally the inferior.
Verse
14. And Adam was not deceived - The serpent deceived Eve: Eve
did not deceive Adam, but persuaded him. "Thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife," Gen. iii, 17. The preceding verse
showed why a woman should not "usurp authority over the man."
this shows why she ought not "to teach." She is more easily
deceived, and more easily deceives. The woman being deceived
transgressed - "The serpent deceived" her, Gen. iii, 13, and she
transgressed.
Verse
15. Yet she - That is, women in general, who were all involved
with Eve in the sentence pronounced, Gen. iii, 16. Shall be saved
in childbearing - Carried safe through the pain and danger which
that sentence entails upon them for the transgression; yea, and
finally saved, if they continue in loving faith and holy wisdom.
Chapter 2:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Johnson
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 Thessalonians 2 Timothy
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