1 Timothy 2:2

in authority R.V. in high place. The noun occurs only 1 Corinthians 2:1, -I came not with excellencyof speech," but the participle in Romans 13:1, -the higherpowers."

Though there is no special reference to Roman emperors, yet as Wordsworth well says, under the circumstances of its writing, this exhortation is -an evidence of the courage and divine commission of St Paul." It is also a practical reply to the charge, so commonly brought at the time and after, of civil disaffection.

in all godliness and honesty -Godliness," a constant devout realization of God's presence and greatness. The word occurs ten times in these epistles, and in 2Pe 1:3; 2 Peter 1:6-7; its opposite in 1 Timothy 1:9. It is another characteristic word of the Pastoral Epistles. -Honesty" appears to have the same sense as in the Marriage Service, -that they may live together in godly love and honesty," that is, purity and fidelity to the marriage vow, and therefore well to represent the Greek word which only occurs here and 1 Timothy 3:4, and Titus 2:7. The idea is that of propriety of conduct, the outward counterpart of godliness. The adjective which occurs 1 Timothy 3:8; 1 Timothy 3:11; Titus 2:2 and Philippians 4:8 is in the last place rendered by A.V. -honest," by R.V. -honourable." Joseph in his thought and in his conduct exemplified both; "How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" Conybeare's rendering gravity has been adopted by the commentators and R.V. The Prayer for the Church Militant expressly echoes this verse, -that under her we may be godly and quietly governed."

quiet and peaceable Rather, peaceable and quiet; -outward peace and inward tranquillity" Olshausen and Ellicott, who translate -quiet and tranquil": but the distinction is doubtful, and R.V. gives -tranquil and quiet."

life -Manner of life" according to the usual distinction between biosand zoè. See Trench, N. T. Syn. § 27.