1 Timothy 2:14

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED - directly, as Eve was by the serpent, but was persuaded by his wife (Genesis 3:17): indirectly deceived. Contrast Genesis 3:13. Eve says, "The serpent beguiled me." Being easily deceived, she easily deceives (2 Corinthians 11:3). Last in being, she was first in sin. The subtle serpent knew she was "the weaker vessel." He therefore tempted her. She yielded to the temptations of sense and the deceits of Satan; he, to conjugal love. Hence, in the order of God's sentence, the serpent, the prime offender, stands first; the woman, who was deceived, next; the man, pe...

14_And Adam was not deceived _He alludes to the punishment inflicted on the woman: “Because thou hast obeyed the voice of the serpent, thou shalt be subject to the authority of thy husband, and thy desire shall be to him.” (43) (Genesis 3:16.) Because she had given fatal advice, it was right that she should learn that she was under the power and will of another; and because she had drawn her husband aside from the command of God, it was right that she should be deprived of all liberty and placed under the yoke. Besides, the Apostle does not rest his argument entirely or absolutely on the cause of the transgression, but founds it on the sentence which was pronounced by God. Yet it may be thought that these two statements are somewhat contradictory: that the subjection of the woman is the punishment of her transgression, and yet that

8-15 Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith, without doubting, and without disputing. Women who profess the Christian religion, must be modest in apparel, not affecting gaudiness, gaiety, or costliness. Good works are the best ornament; these are, in the sight of God, of great price. Modesty and neatness are more to be consulted in garments than elegance and fashion. And it would be well if the professors of serious godliness were wholly free from vanity in dress. They should spend more time and money in relieving the sick and distressed, than in deco...

Verse 14. _ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED_] It does not appear that Satan attempted the man; the woman said: _The serpent beguiled me_, _and I did eat_. Adam received the fruit from the hand of his wife; _he_ knew he was transgressing, he was not _deceived_; however, _she_ led the way, and in consequence of this she was subjected to the domination of her husband: _Thy desire shall be to thy_ _husband, and he shall rule over thee_; Genesis 3:16. There is a Greek verse, but it is not English law, that speaks a language nearly similar to that above:- Γυναικι δ' αρχειν ου διδωσιν ἡ φυσις. For nature suffers not a woman's rule. God has not only rendered her unfit for it, but he has subjected her, expressly, to the government of the man....

AND ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED - This is the second reason why the woman should occupy a subordinate rank in all things. It is, that in the most important situation in which she was ever placed she had shown that she was not qualified to take the lead. She had evinced a readiness to yield to temptation; a feebleness of resistance; a pliancy of character, which showed that she was not adapted to the situation of headship, and which made it proper that she should ever afterward occupy a subordinate situation. It is not meant here that Adam did not sin, nor even that he was not deceived by the tempter, but that the woman opposed a feebler resistance to the temptation than he would have done, and that the temptation as actually applied to her would have been ineffectual on him. To tempt and seduce him to fall, there were needed all the soft persuasions, the entreaties, and example of his wife. Sa...

EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 2:1 _First of all_,_ that _for _that_,_ first of all_,_ _A.V.; _thanksgivings _for _and giving of thanks_._ _A.V. I EXHORT THEREFORE. The insertion of the connecting particle "therefore" marks that this arrangement of Church prayers is a part—as the following words, first of all, mark that it is the first part—of that charge or administration which was now committed to Timothy. SUPPLICATIONS, PRAYERS, INTERCESSIONS, THANKSGIVINGS (see the Prayer for the Church Militant). The question naturally arises whether the first words here used—δεήσις προσευχάς, and ἐντεύξεις—have any distinctive meaning, or are merely accumulated, like synonyms m legal documents, or various phrases in rhetorical addresses, to ensure completeness and to add force. It

AND ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED,.... There is no need to say with interpreters, that he was not deceived first; and that he was not deceived immediately by the serpent, but by Eve; and that he is never said in Scripture to be deceived, as Melchizedek is never said to have a father or mother. The apostle's positive assertion is to be taken without any such limitations or qualifications; Adam never was deceived at all; neither by the serpent, with whom he never conversed; nor by his wife, he knew what he did, when he took the fruit of her, and ate; he ate it not under any deception, or vain imagination, that they should not die, but should be as gods, knowing good and evil. He took and ate out of love to his wife, from a fond affection to her, to bear her company, and that she might not die alone; he knew what he did, and he knew what would be the consequence of it, the death of them both; and i...

TRANSGRESSION SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

II. CONCERNING PRAYER CHAPTER 2 __ 1. Prayer for all men and for those in authority (1 Timothy 2:1) 2. The place for the man and the woman (1 Timothy 2:8) 1 Timothy 2:1 Instructions are now given by the apostle. The first concerns prayer. “I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty (literally, gravity). For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.” The God who is our Father is also the Sav

THE BEHAVIOUR OF WOMEN. Public prayer, characterised by the right spirit, must be offered only by _men._ Women's part is to dress modestly, finding their chief adornment in good works. They may neither teach in public nor rule. Their's is the inferior position (_a)_ because woman was created later than man; (_b)_ because, while his first sin was deliberate, hers was due to the ease with which she was deceived a proof of her unfitness to guide others. Nevertheless, exhibiting the Christian virtues in her natural sphere and functions, woman shall thereby work out her salvation. _Cf._ p. 650. 1 TIMOTHY 2:8. LIFTING, etc.: this attitude, pagan as well as Jewish and Christian, denoted expectation of blessing. 1 Timothy 2:9. _ Cf._...