(c) 1 Timothy 6:17-19. The True Conception of Riches. Though God gives good things for our enjoyment, wealth is too uncertain a foundation on which to rest our hope. By good works rich men should lay up a foundation for the future (Matthew 6:20; Luke 16:9), secure on which they may gain that life which is more than mere existence (Luke 12:15; Luke 12:21).
(d) 1 Timothy 6:20 f. Final Charge. A forceful reiteration of the epistle's main message. Timothy must (a) guard the evangelical doctrine (cf. 2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 1:14), the true antidote to error; (b) reject the unholy vain-talking (1 Timothy 1:6; 2 Timothy 2:16) and endless contrasts of decisions, founded on endless distinctions (Hort), on which the errorists, falsely claiming to possess the true knowledge, prided themselves (1 Timothy 1:3-11 *).
1 Timothy 6:20. oppositions: there is no allusion to Marcion's Book of Oppositions; see Hort, Judaistic Christianity, pp. 138 ff.