1 Timothy 2:5

Forthere is one God Usually taken as a proof of God's willing all men to be saved, as in the quotation from Theodore, 1 Timothy 2:4. But the parallel passage is ch. 1 Timothy 3:15-16, where the test word -the truth" leads at once to the recital of an apparently well-known elementary creed. And so here, 1 Timothy 2:5-6 give us a creed, a brief exposition of -the truth"; and 1 Timothy 2:7 is seen to have a much plainer connexion and stronger force this creed, this Gospel, is what you have received with my imprimaturas apostle of the Gentiles, and is -the truth," whatever the teachers of false knowledge may say. See App. A iii.

and one mediator … the man Accurate rendering requires one mediator also … ( himself) man. The word -mediator" has now come to be applied without explanations to Christ; a token of the later use, even of creed formulary. The places in Hebrews 8:6; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 12:24, where Christ is thus spoken of in contrast to Moses would lead on to this usage. -Man," not of the angelic race, whose aid some would wish to use for mediation, Colossians 2:18. Cf. Hebrews 2:16.

"The other equally essential condition that he should be God is not here insisted on, for the tendency of Gnosticism was to Docetism."