1 Timothy 6:3

teach otherwise More fully R.V., teacheth a different doctrine, but even this does not completely give the force; for the -different" is not so much -different from what has just been laid down," as -different from the one true deposit, the creed of all my gospel and all your life;" and helps to form the meaning now attached to heterodoxy, lit. - opinions differentfrom established truth." The close of the Epistle takes up the opening where this word has occurred before there has been time to lay down any teaching, 1 Timothy 1:3. Lewin renders here -if any man teach what is heterodox."

wholesome words Again taking up his opening phrase 1 Timothy 1:10, where see note. Sound is the best English equivalent, if we do not stay on the most modern and -cant" sense of the word, but go back to its early vigour, so as to appreciate St Paul's contrast here with the - sicklyquestionings" of the false teacher, 1 Timothy 6:4. See Appendix, K.

our Lord Jesus Christ This exact order of the words so familiar to us in St Paul's other writings occurs only here and 1 Timothy 6:14 throughout these Epistles according to the true text. An imitator would surely, as we see by the various readings so often attempted, have taken pains to make the well-known formula a marked feature. It may be also noted that the aged saint, so near the end of his -good fight," does not presume familiarly on his Saviour's intimacy, so as to use the one name -Jesus" with tripping fluency. It is still -Christ Jesus," -Jesus Christ," -The Lord." See note on 1 Timothy 1:1.

the doctrine … according to godliness Two characteristic words of these Epistles combined in a phrase which might be taken as their keynote -Holy Truth True Holiness." See previous notes on the words and especially the note on the central doctrinal passage 1 Timothy 3:16.