“ These things command and teach. ”
These things command and teach - As important doctrines, and as embracing the sum of the Christian system. It follows from this, that a minister of the gospel is solemnly bound to teach that ther...
The Treatment Needed. Timothy must meet the errors by ( a) personal example ( 1 Timothy 4:6-10 ) and ( b ) diligent teaching ( 1 Timothy 4:11-16 ). In combating error he must continually draw his...
command . See Acts 1:4 . Compare 1 Timothy 1:3 .
11 Instruct and teach these things He means that the doctrine is of such a kind, that men ought not to be weary of it, though they heard it every day. There are, no doubt, other things to be...
These things command and teach. These things command and teach - Let it be the sum and substance of thy preaching, that true religion is profitable for both worlds; that vice destroys both body and s...
Command— Give in charge. See ch. 1 Timothy 1:3 ; 1 Timothy 1:5 ; 1 Timothy 1:18 .
These things command and teach. These truths, to the exclusion of those useless and even injurious teachings ( 1 Timothy 4:1-8 ), while weighing well thyself, charge also upon others.
Various Directions and Exhortations 1-10. A return to, and emphatic reiteration of, the first charge to Timothy ( 1 Timothy 1:3-20 ) against heterodoxy and in favour of true godliness. This form o...
These things command and teach. — “These things” — i.e., the real meaning of “godliness,” that practical everyday piety which, in contradistinction to the severe and strained asceticism of a limi...
“Take Heed to Thyself” 1 Timothy 4:9-16 In all Christian service we must set our hope on the living God. Nothing counts apart from God. Prayer implies that all our gifts and efforts cover only...
Having thus dealt with the Church, the apostle showed Timothy how he was to fulfil his responsibility. He had a duty toward the truth, and therefore toward the Church. In order to correct errors whic...
(10) For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. (11) These things command and teach. (12) Le...
These things command and teach. What are to be commanded, command, and what are to be taught, teach; command to refuse and reject all profane and fabulous doctrines, and exhort to the exercise of t...
These things command and teach. Ver. 11. These things command and teach ] Teach the tractable, command the obstinate, lay God's charge upon all.
This Concerning the advantage of godliness; is a faithful saying A saying as important as it is true; and worthy of all acceptation That is, of entire credit, and of the most earnest and conti...
The solemn warning here is in startling contrast to the preciousness of what we have considered as to God manifest in flesh. How cold is the heart of man that he will turn deliberately from a faith s...
Exhortation to Godliness; Exhortation to Ministerial Duties. A. D. 64. 6 If thou put the bre...
All the things before mentioned, in this or the former parts of this Epistle, he willeth Timothy to make the matter of his sermons and other discourses.
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Timothy 4:8 . For bodily exercise profiteth little. —The meaning which seems simplest may here be the correct one, as many able scholars think—bodily exercise, d...
1 Timothy 4:1 . Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, “learnedly, openly, perspicuously, and not in shadows, as was the manner of the ancient prophets.” THEOPHYLACT. See the note on 2 Thessalonians...
These things command and teach. Characteristics of the Christian teacher With true affection, and with heavenly wisdom, Paul exhorts his son in the faith to be mindful of his conduct and charac...
EXPOSITION 1 Timothy 4:1 But for now , A.V.; saith for speaketh , A.V.; later for the latter , A.V.; fall away for depart , A.V. The Spirit saith expressly (ῥητῶς);...
The Personal Conduct of Timothy. Timothy as a good teacher:
1 Timothy 6:2 ; 2 Timothy 4:2 ; Titus 2:15 ; Titus 3:8