Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Timothy 1:11
According to the glorious gospel — Which, far from "making void," does effectually "establish, the law."
According to the glorious gospel — Which, far from "making void," does effectually "establish, the law."
Verse 11. _ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL_] The _sound_ _doctrine_ mentioned above, which is here called ευαγγελιον της δοξης του μακαριου θεου, _the Gospel of the glory of the blessed_ or _happy G...
ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL - The gospel is a system of divine revelation. It makes known the will of God. It states what is duty, and accords in its great principles with the law, or is in harmo...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CONCERNING DOCTRINE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (1 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. The charge concerning false doctrine (1 Timothy 1:3) 3. The law, its use, and in contrast with gra...
(_b_) 1 Timothy 1:3. REMINDER OF PAUL'S VERBAL CHARGE. 1 Timothy 1:3. The False Teaching, and a Digression on the Law. Some years before, Paul had foretold that error would assail the Church in Asia ...
We know that the law is good, if a man uses it legitimately, in the awareness that the law was not instituted to deal with good men, but with the lawless and the undisciplined, the irreverent and the...
THE ROYAL COMMAND (1 Timothy 1:1-2)...
ACCORDING TO. App-104. GLORIOUS GOSPEL. gospel (App-140) of the glory (p. 1511). Compare 2 Corinthians 4:4. BLESSED. Only in this epistle is "blessed" (or happy), Greek. _makarios,_ applied to God,...
_according to the glorious gospel_ Rather with R.V. ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY. How far back does St Paul look in -according to the gospel"? Surely through the whole passage since the last _...
Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the character of the true Gospel...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΤῸ ΕΥ̓ΑΓΓΈΛΙΟΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. This seems to be in connexion with the ‘sound doctrine’ of which the Apostle has just spoken; viz. _if there be anything else opposed to the sound doctrine, according to the...
DIGRESSION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAS BEEN JUST SAID...
REPETITION OF CHARGE ALREADY GIVEN TO TIMOTHY...
ΜΑΚΆΡΙΟΣ (G3107) блаженный. Все счастье заключено в Боге, и Он дарит его людям (Lock), ΔΌΞΗΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΔΌΖΑ (G1391) слава. Атрибутивный _gen._ описывает качество или атрибут: "славное евангелие...
DISCOURSE: 2222 NATURE AND OFFICE OF THE GOSPEL [Note: The reader is recommended to read the Sermons on Galatians 3:19. in connexion with, and immediately before, these. The two together contain one c...
b. Misuse of the Law. 1 Timothy 1:8-11 _TEXT 1:8-11_ 8 But we know the law is good, if a man use it lawfully, 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unr...
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL (Romans 2:16). The Christian's freedom from the law as a sanctifier, as well a...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
THE FIRST CHARGE TO TIMOTHY. To remember and act upon the instructions already given him by St. Paul, which were to be firm in resisting the heterodox teachers in Ephesus, as the Apostle had been hims...
TIMOTHY REMINDED OF HIS COMMISSION, AND EXHORTED TO EARNESTNESS 1, 2. Salutation. An apostle] St. Peter and St. John, with regard to whose position no question was raised, are content to call themselv...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER The record in the book of Acts ends with the *apostle Paul in prison in *Rome. That was about AD 60 and he was there f...
ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL. — All that St. Paul had been saying concerning the Law — its true work and its only work — was no mere arbitrary conception of his own; it was simply a repetition of...
CHAPTER 4 THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE GNOSTICS-ITS MODERN COUNTERPART. - 1 Timothy 1:8 THE speculations of the Gnostics in their attempts to explain the origin of the universe and the origin of evil, w...
And yet this alleged antagonism of the Law to the Gospel is factitious: _the Law_ on which they insist is part of law in general; so is the Gospel with which I was entrusted. The intention of both is...
κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, κ. τ. λ., refers to the whole preceding sentence and is not to be connected with διδασκαλίᾳ. only, which would necessitate τῇ κατὰ, κ. τ. λ. This reading is actually found in [257]...
A CHARGE AGAINST “VAIN TALKING” 1 Timothy 1:1 The relation of Paul to Timothy is an example of one of those beautiful friendships between an older and a younger man, in which each is the complement o...
This letter is an apostle's letter to a young minister having oversight of the church in Ephesus. The first part of the letter deals with the Church, its doctrine, its devotions, and its ministry. Dif...
UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW Paul was not saying that the law was not from God or that it did not fulfill a very important part of his purpose. It was the law that taught man he was a sinner....
(9) According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, (10) which was committed to my trust. (9) He contrasts fond and vain babbling with, not only the Law, but the Gospel also, which does not cond...
(3) As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, (4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
_IN TRUST FOR THE GOSPEL_ ‘The gospel … which was committed to my trust.’ 1 Timothy 1:11 The gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, says St. Paul, was committed to my trust. Nothing moved the Apos...
_THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL_ ‘The glorious gospel (the gospel of the glory R.V.) of the blessed God.’ 1 Timothy 1:11 There were those in Ephesus who contended that the freedom of the gospel released them...
11_According to the gospel of glory _By calling it “the gospel of glory,” that is, “the glorious gospel,” he sharply rebukes those who labored to degrade the gospel, in which God displays his glory. H...
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus have naturally a peculiar bearing and character, being addressed to persons deputed by the apostle to act in his name, or to care for the churches during his absence....
ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD,.... For no doctrine is sound, but what is agreeable to that: this is a very great encomium of the Gospel. The doctrine preached by the apostles was...
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. Ver. 11. _Of the blessed God_] Blessed in himself, and to be everlastingly blessed of all creatures. Hence he is...
_We know that the law is good_ Answers excellent purposes; _if a man use it lawfully_ In a proper manner. Even the ceremonial law is good as it points to Christ, and is emblematical of the various bra...
ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD, WHICH WAS COMMITTED TO MY TRUST. Far from decrying the Law and deprecating its continued use in the Church, the apostle is careful to place his rig...
THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE LAW....
The apostleship of Paul is shown here to be no light matter. His was a call totally independent of the other apostles, but "according to the command of God." We have, therefore, no liberty to regard h...
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 1. Gospel - What is the meaning of this word? What is the good news about Jesus that we need to preach? 2. Commi...
“ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL”: In the Greek the last phrase is literally “the sound doctrine”, which means that “sound teaching” is another name for the gospel message. This also means that there...
5-11 Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and...
Here the apostle specifies the sound doctrine of which he spake; that it is contained in the gospel, the perfect rule of righteousness, which he styles THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD, it being...
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1 Timothy 1:11. ACCORDING TO THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL. Better, ‘ _the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God.'_ The translation of the characterizing genitive, as though it were simply equivalent to an adj...
OF THE BLESSED GOD (του μακαριου θεου). Applied to God only here and 1 Timothy 6:15, but in Titus 2:13 μακαριος occurs with ελπις (hope) of the "epiphany of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ....
1 Timothy 1:11 We have here I. A recommendation of the Gospel; and this we see lies in two things, in its having such an Author; it is "the Gospel of the blessed God"; and, secondly, in its being in...
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;_ Christ is our hope; we have not a shadow of a hope apart from him. I...
CONTENTS: Legalism and unsound teaching rebuked. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy, Alexander, Satan, Hymenaeus CONCLUSION: Witnesses of Christ must not only be charged to preach the true Gospel doctr...
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ._ Beza cites here the reading of the Complute polyglot bible, made under the patronage of...
THAT TEACHING. The true teaching. The Good News of Jesus Christ is based on the FACTS of God's act in him to set men free. The true teaching is based on the AUTHORITY of Christ. These false teachers c...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:3 Confronting the False Teaching. Paul charges Timothy to deal with the false teachers (vv. 1 Timothy 1:3). Next he briefly corrects their
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:11 “Sound doctrine” (v. 1 Timothy 1:10) is that which flows out of the GOSPEL....
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:9 THE LAW IS NOT LAID DOWN FOR THE JUST. People who are “just” do not need the law to restrain them, but those who are LAWLESS AND DISOBEDIENT need such restraint. Paul d...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 1:8. WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD.—The “grace and truth” which “came by Jesus Christ” did not abrogate the law. That law had a moral excellence, was indeed...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ_,_ _A.V. and T.R.; _according to _for _by_,_ _A.V.; _Christ Jesus our hope _for _Lord Jesus Christ_,_ which is our hope_,_ _A.V. and T.R. For...
Ver. 11. _According to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust_ not _the glorious gospel_, taking τῆς δόξης as a qualitative genitive, equivalent to ε ̓́ νγοξος (se...
First Timothy. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour (1 Timothy 1:1), And the Greek word is "the royal commandment" of God; it's a word that is used when a king had m...
1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Corinthians 9:17; 1 Peter 1:11;...
According to. The connection is with the whole foregoing statement about the law and its application, ver. 9 ff. The writer substantiates what he has just said about the law, by a reference to the gos...
Note here, 1. The title given to the gospel: IT IS CALLED THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL OF THE BLESSED GOD: partly, because the glorious attributes and excellences of God are more resplendent in the gospel, tha...