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1 Timothy 4:13
To the public reading. Since the printing-press had not yet been invented, books were hand-made and scarce. Public reading of the Scriptures was an important part of the church meeting.
To the public reading. Since the printing-press had not yet been invented, books were hand-made and scarce. Public reading of the Scriptures was an important part of the church meeting.
Verse 13. _GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING_] Timothy could easily comprehend the apostle's meaning; but at present this is not so easy. What _books_ does the apostle mean? The books of the Old Testament w...
TILL I COME; - notes, 1 Timothy 3:14. GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING - The word here used may refer either to public or to private reading; see Act 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14; compare Esdr. 9:48.
IV. CONCERNING THE LATTER-DAY APOSTASY CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the Spirit has predicted (1 Timothy 4:1)_ 2. The remedies against apostasy (1 Timothy 4:6) 1 Timothy 4:1 The mystery of godliness h
THE TREATMENT NEEDED. Timothy must meet the errors by (_a)_ personal example (1 Timothy 4:6) and (_b_) diligent teaching (1 Timothy 4:11). In combating error he must continually draw his strength from...
Make it your business to hand on and to teach these commandments. Do not give anyone a chance to despise you because you are young; but in your words and in your conduct, in love, in loyalty and in pu...
THE SERVICE OF GOD OR THE SERVICE OF SATAN (1 Timothy 4:1-5)...
GIVE ATTENDANCE. take heed, as 1 Timothy 4:1 (giving heed). READING. See Acts 13:15. EXHORTATION. Greek. _paraklesis_. See Acts 22:5. DOCTRINE. teaching....
_Till I come_ The present indic, (instead of future indic. or aorist subjunctive) is found Luke 19:13, -trade ye herewith till I come;" John 21:22, -if I will that he tarry till I come." The right rea...
ii. TIMOTHY’S DUTY IN RESPECT OF HIS PERSONAL CONDUCT...
ἜΩΣ ἜΡΧΟΜΑΙ. Possibly the present tense implies a more confident expectation than would be suggested by ἕως ἄν ἔλθω; cp. 1 Timothy 3:14 ἐλπίζων ἐλθεῖν πρὸς σὲ τάχιον. ΠΡΌΣΕΧΕ, _give heed_; see note o...
ΠΡΌΣΕΧΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΧΩ (G4337) (_см._ 1 Timothy 4:1), заниматься, с _dat._; имеется в виду личная подготовка (Guthrie). _Praes._ призывает к постоянному действию. ΆΝΆΓΝΩΣΙΣ (G320) чт...
TO READING, TO EXHORTATION, &C.— It was the custom in the synagogue to _read_ a portion of the scriptures of the Old Testament; and, after that, to instruct the people in the meaning of it, and to giv...
THE TRUE SERVICE OF GOD. 1 Timothy 4:11-16 a. In Public Life 1 Timothy 4:11-13 _TEXT 4:11-13_ 11 These things command and teach. 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them tha...
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. TILL I COME - when Timothy's commission would be superseded by the presence of the apostle (1 Timothy 1:3; 1 Timothy 3:14). R...
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...
1 The signs of the last days are all present with us now. The teaching of deceiving spirits and demons has become one of the great and popular cults of the day. Their deception seems chiefly to take t...
4:13 reading, (i-7) Or 'reading out' (to others)....
READING.. EXHORTATION.. DOCTRINE] i.e. the public reading of Scripture in church and sermons hortative and doctrinal....
SIXTH CHARGE TO TIMOTHY—personal to himself....
VARIOUS DIRECTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS 1-10. A return to, and emphatic reiteration of, the first charge to Timothy (1 Timothy 1:3) against heterodoxy and in favour of true godliness. This form of hetero...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS (4:1-5) V1 The Spirit clearly says that in the last days some people will turn from the *faith...
TILL I COME, GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING. — The words evidently imply a hope, perhaps even an expectation, on the part of St. Paul, that he would one day be enabled once more to visit the Church of Eph...
Silent example or mild suggestion will not do in every case. There are many occasions when it will be necessary for you to speak out, with the authority given to you at your ordination. At the same ti...
ἕως ἔρχομαι : For ἕως with present indic, instead of fut. see Winer-Moulton, _Grammar_, p. 370. _Cf._ Luke 19:13; John 21:22-23. ἀνάγνωσις, παράκλησις, διδασκαλία are the three elements in the ministr...
“TAKE HEED TO THYSELF” 1 Timothy 4:9 In all Christian service we must set our hope on the living God. Nothing counts apart from God. Prayer implies that all our gifts and efforts cover only a small p...
Having thus dealt with the Church, the apostle showed Timothy how he was to fulfil his responsibility. He had a duty toward the truth, and therefore toward the Church. In order to correct errors which...
TAKE HEED TO YOURSELF AND THE DOCTRINE Roberts points out that Paul was an aged man by the time he wrote this letter. Also, priests did not begin their work until age 30 and elders were not less than...
(15) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. (15) The private exercise of pastors, is the continual reading of the scriptures, from which they may draw water out of whol...
_Attend to reading, &c. He recommends to him the reading of the Holy Scriptures; which says St. Ambrose, (lib. 3. de fid. chap. vii.) is the book of priests. (Witham)_...
(10) For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. (11) These things command and teach. (12) Let...
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...
13_Attend to reading _He knew Timothy’s diligence, and yet he recommends to him diligent reading of the Scriptures. How shall pastors teach others if they be not eager to learn? And if so great a man...
But there would be some who departed from the faith, from this knowledge of the one Creator and Saviour-God Him who was manifested in the flesh. They would attack precisely these points which we have...
TILL I COME,.... To Ephesus; where the apostle hoped to be shortly, but was prevented; he afterwards came to Miletus, and sent for the elders of Ephesus thither, when he took his final leave of them....
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Ver. 13. _Give attendance to reading_] First to reading, and then to exhortation; bringing as a good scribe, out of a good treasu...
_Let no man despise thy youth_ That is, let no one have reason to despise it, but conduct thyself with such gravity, wisdom, and steadiness, as, instead of exposing thee to contempt, will rather gain...
READING; of the holy Scriptures. The immediate connection of this word with "exhortation" and "doctrine" seems to show that the public reading of the Scriptures in religious assemblages, after the man...
Timothy's spiritual growth:...
TILL I COME, GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING, TO EXHORTATION, TO DOCTRINE....
The solemn warning here is in startling contrast to the preciousness of what we have considered as to God manifest in flesh. How cold is the heart of man that he will turn deliberately from a faith so...
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 1. Attendance - What does this word mean? Does God just require us to "show up" at worship services? In what should we give atten...
“Until. come”: PAUL EXPECTED AT THIS TIME TO BE ABLE TO RETURN TO EPHESUS (1 TIMOTHY 3:14). 1 Timothy 4:13 “Give attention to”: MEANING TO DEVOTE THOUGHT AND EFFORT. 1 Timothy 4:13 “The public readin...
11-16 Men's youth will not be despised, if they keep from vanities and follies. Those who teach by their doctrine, must teach by their life. Their discourse must be edifying; their conversation must...
TILL I COME, and after that time too, but then I will further instruct thee. GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING; be diligent in reading the Holy Scriptures, both for thine own instruction and for the edificat...
Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch Give attention to reading,[9] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X The former parables He spoke to the multitudes; but this and the two which follow...
1 Timothy 4:13 Till G2193 come G2064 (G5736) attention G4337 (G5720) reading G320 exhortation G3874 doctrine G1319
1 Timothy 4:13. TILL I COME. The words seem to imply that Timothy's work at Ephesus was thought of as temporary and provisional. On St. Paul's return that delegated work would naturally cease, and the...
TILL I COME (εως ερχομα). "While I am coming" (present indicative with εως), not "till I come" (εως ελθω).GIVE HEED (προσεχε). Present active imperative, supply τον νουν, "keep on putting thy min...
CONTENTS: Walk of a good minister of Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Those are good ministers of Jesus Christ who are diligent to instil into the minds of the...
1 Timothy 4:1. _Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,_ “learnedly, openly, perspicuously, and not in shadows, as was the manner of the ancient prophets.” THEOPHYLACT. See the note on 2 Thessalonians 2:1....
_Give attendance to reading._ LECTURE ON READING I. First, the choice of books. In this there is a great need of caution; particularly in the spring season of life, while the mental and moral habits...
_These things command and teach._ CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CHRISTIAN TEACHER With true affection, and with heavenly wisdom, Paul exhorts his son in the faith to be mindful of his conduct and character...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 4:13 PUBLIC READING in the churches points to the authority of Paul’s letters. It also assumes they were written to be understood by ordinary believers....
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 4:6 How Timothy Should Be Shaped by the Gospel. Paul focuses on how Timothy, by his teaching and lifestyle, can help the church stand against the false teaching....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 4:13. GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING.—Probably the apostle means to the public reading of the Old Testament Scriptures, though it would not be surprising if por...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 4:1 _But _for _now_,_ _A.V.; _saith _for _speaketh_,_ _A.V.;_ later _for _the latter_,_ _A.V.;_ fall away _for _depart_,_ _A.V. THE SPIRIT SAITH EXPRESSLY (ῥητῶς);_ _only here...
Ver. 13. _Till I come_ (the present, ἔρχομαι, probably to express the purpose of an early return to Ephesus), _give attention to the reading, the exhortation, the teaching._ The definiteness indicated...
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1); Here Paul speaks of a departure fr...
1 Corinthians 14:26; 1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6; 1 Timothy 3:14;...
To reading [α ν α γ ν ω σ ε ι]. Three times in N. T. See Acts 13:15; 2 Corinthians 3:14. The verb ajnaginwskein usually of public reading. See on Luke 4:16. So in LXX In post - classical Greek, someti...
Give thyself to reading — Both publicly and privately. Enthusiasts, observe this! Expect no end without the means....
St. Paul, being uncertain when he should see this young labourer again, adds farther instructions to those already given him. And here, 1. He requires him TO GIVE ATTENDANCE TO READING, that is, be d...