1 Timothy 3:16

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. AND - following up 1 Timothy 3:15: 'AND (that thou mayest know how grand is that truth which the Church, like a pillar, upholds) confessedly (by the universal confession of the members of the Church, which is in this respect "the pillar of the truth") great is the mystery of godliness: (namely) He WHO [so 'Aleph (') A C G, hos (G3739), for Theos (G2316), 'God.' Delta f g, Vulgate, read ho (G3588), 'which mystery'] was...

16_Great is the mystery of godliness _Again, here is another enhancement. That the truth of God might not, through the ingratitude of men, be less esteemed than it ought, he extols its value, by stating that “great is the secret of godliness;” that is, because it does not treat of mean subjects, but of the revelation of the Son of God, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom.” (Colossians 2:3.) From the greatness and importance of such matters, pastors ought to judge of their office, that they may devote themselves to the discharge of it with greater conscientiousness and deeper reverence. _God manifested in the flesh _The Vulgate’s translator, by leaving out the name of _God, _refers what follows to “the mystery,” but altogether unskillfully and inappropriately, as will clearly be seen on a bare perusal, though he has Erasmus on his sid

14-16 The church is the house of God; he dwells there. The church holds forth the Scripture and the doctrine of Christ, as a pillar holds forth a proclamation. When a church ceases to be the pillar and ground of truth, we may and ought to forsake her; for our regard to truth should be first and greatest. The mystery of godliness is Christ. He is God, who was made flesh, and was manifest in the flesh. God was pleased to manifest himself to man, by his own Son taking the nature of man. Though reproached as a sinner, and put to death as a malefactor, Christ was raised again by the Spirit, and so was justified from all the false charges with which he was loaded. Angels ministered to him, for he is the Lord of angels. The Gentiles welcomed the gospel which the Jews rejected. Let us remember that God was manifest in the flesh, to take away our sins, to redeem us from all iniquity, and to puri...

Verse 1 Timothy 3:16. _AND, WITHOUT CONTROVERSY_] Και ὁμολογουμενες· _And confessedly, by general consent_, it is a thing which no man _can_ or _ought to dispute_; any phrase of this kind expresses the meaning of the original. _GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH_] If we take in the whole of the _14_th, _15_th, and _16_th verses, 1 Timothy 3:14 we may make a consistent translation in the following manner, and the whole paragraph will stand thus: _Hoping to see thee shortly; but should I tarry long,_ _these things I now write unto thee, that thou mayest know how_ _thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the_ _Church of the living God_. _The mystery of godliness, which is the_ pillar and gr

AND, WITHOUT CONTROVERSY - Undeniably, certainly. The object of the apostle is to say that the truth which he was about to state admitted of no dispute. GREAT IS THE MYSTERY - On the meaning of the word “mystery,” see the notes on 1 Corinthians 2:7. The word means that which had been hidden or concealed. The meaning here is not that the proposition which he affirms was mysterious in the sense that it was unintelligible, or impossible to be understood; but that the doctrine respecting the incarnation and the work of the Messiah, which had been so long “kept hidden” from the world, was a subject of the deepest importance. This passage, therefore, should not be used to prove that there is anything unintelligible, or anything that surpasses human comprehension, in that doctrine, whatever may be the truth on that po

EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 3:1 _Faithful is the saying _for _this is a true saying_,_ _A.V.; _seeketh _for _desire_,_ _A.V. FAITHFUL IS THE SAYING (see above, 1 Timothy 1:15, note). This manifestly refers to what follows, not, as Chrysostom and others, and margin of the R.V., to the saying which precedes, in 1 Timothy 2:15. SEEKETH (ὀρέγεται); literally, _stretches out his hands after_._ It _is peculiar in the New Testament to the pastoral Epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews, though common in classical Greek (see...

AND WITHOUT CONTROVERSY GREAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS,.... What follows is so, the incarnation of Christ, his birth of a virgin, the union of the two natures, divine and human, in his person; this is a mystery, which though revealed, and so to be believed, is not to be discerned nor accounted for, nor the modus of it to be comprehended by reason: and it is a great one, next, if not equal, to the doctrine of a trinity of persons in the divine essence; and is a mystery of godliness, which tends to encourage internal and external religion, powerful and practical godliness in all the parts and branches of it; and is so beyond all dispute and doubt. GOD WAS MANIFEST IN THE FLESH; not God essentially considered, or Deity in the abstract, but personally; and not the first nor the third Person; for of neither of them can this or the following things be said; but the second Person, the Word,...

MYSTERY (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11). _ ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _ WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...

1 TIMOTHY 3:16 o[j {A} The reading which, on the basis of external evidence and transcriptional probability, best explains the rise of the others is o[j. It is supported by the earliest and best uncials (a* A*vid C* Ggr) as well as by 33 365 442 2127 syrhmg, pal goth ethpp Origenlat Epiphanius Jerome Theodore Eutheriusacc. to Theodoret Cyril Cyrilacc. to Ps-Oecumenius Liberatus. Furthermore, since the neuter relative pronoun o[ must have arisen as a scribal correction of o[j (to bring the relative into concord with musth,rion), the witnesses that read o[ (D* it...

III. CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF GOD CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The overseer (1 Timothy 3:1)_ 2. The deacon (1 Timothy 3:8) 3. The house of God and the mystery of Godliness (1 Timothy 3:14) 1 Timothy 3:1 As stated before, the Church is viewed in these pastoral Epistles as the house of God. The holiness which becomes this house is to be maintained and expressed in a practical way. The different directions given as to overseers and deacons demonstrate what God esteems highly, and what He expects of those who are saved by grace, and who constitute His House. Paul wrote these instructions to his son Timot