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Verse 9. _THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN_] There is a _moral
law_ as well as a _ceremonial law_: as the object of the _latter_ is
to _lead us to Christ_; the object of the _former_ is to _re...
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KNOWING THIS - That is, “If anyone knows, or admits this, he has the
prover view of the design of the law.” The apostle does not refer
particularly to himself as knowing or conceding this, for then he...
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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...
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(_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 ...
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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...
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THE ROYAL COMMAND (1 Timothy 1:1-2)...
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NOT. App-105.
MADE. appointed.
RIGHTEOUS. App-191.
LAWLESS. App-128.
DISOBEDIENT. not under subjection,
UNDISCIPLINED. Greek. _anupotaktos_. Here; Titus 1:6; Titus 1:10;
Hebrews 2:8
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_knowing this_ The A.V. putting a full stop after -lawfully" gives an
entirely wrong turn here; the R.V. puts a comma and inserts -as" in
order to shew the connexion of -knowing" with -a man"; we may...
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Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the
character of the true Gospel...
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ΠΑΤΡΟΛΏΙΑΙΣ ΚΑῚ ΜΗΤΡΟΛΏΙΑΙΣ. This is the
spelling of the best MSS.; the rec. text, following the majority of
the cursives, has πατραλῴαις, μητραλῴαις.
9. ΕἸΔῺΣ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. This refers to the foregoing τι...
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DIGRESSION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAS BEEN JUST SAID...
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REPETITION OF CHARGE ALREADY GIVEN TO TIMOTHY...
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KNOWING THIS, &C.— The apostle's thought seems to be this, "That _a
law_ in the general,—(for there is no _article,_ as in 1 Timothy 1:8
to determine or confine it to the _Jewish law_)—is chiefly inte...
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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...
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Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mot...
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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...
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1:9 application (i-8) A technical word for the enactment of a law, its
being in force....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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KNOWING THIS. — The teacher of the Law, being aware of this great
truth, now to be detailed — viz.: —
THAT THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN. — The stern Mosaic Law
was enacted centuries before...
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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...
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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...
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εἰδώς refers to τις, _as knowing this_ (R.V). For the
expression _cf._ οἶδας τοῦτο, 2 Timothy 1:15 and Ephesians
5:5. νόμος : Although νόμος when anarthrous may mean the
Mosaic Law, the statement here...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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(8) Knowing this, that the law is not made for a (e) righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for (f)
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
murde...
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The law is not, &c. He means that the just man doth good, and avoideth
evil, not as compelled by the law, and merely for fear of the
punishment appointed for transgressors, but voluntarily, and for th...
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(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,...
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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...
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9_That the law is not made for a righteous man _The apostle did not
intend to argue about the whole office of the law, but views it in
reference to men. It frequently happens that they who wish to be...
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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....
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KNOWING THIS, THAT THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN,.... No man
is naturally righteous since Adam, excepting the man Christ Jesus:
some that are righteous in their own opinion, and in the estee...
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Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth...
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1 Tim. 1:9. "Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous
man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for
sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
murd...
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_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...
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THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN; the apostle is combating the
error of those who trusted in the law as the instrument of their
justification and salvation. This end it could never accomplish....
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KNOWING THIS, THAT THE LAW IS NOT MADE FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN, BUT FOR
THE LAWLESS AND DISOBEDIENT, FOR THE UNGODLY AND FOR SINNERS, FOR
UNHOLY AND PROFANE. FOR MURDERERS OF FATHERS AND MURDERERS OF MOTH...
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THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE LAW....
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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...
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Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for
unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth...
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“REALIZING THE FACT THAT LAW IS NOT MADE FOR. RIGHTEOUS PERSON”:
It would appear that this principle of truth applies to the Law of
Moses as well as law in general. The righteous man is of course the...
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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...
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OLBGrk;
By THE LAW is to be understood the moral law, (though possibly not
excluding the law of Moses, consisting in many ordinances), as it is
armed with stings and terrors, to restrain rebellious si...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
Why, then, did the Lord not form the covenant for the fathers? Because
"the law was not established for righteous men."[197]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV...
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1 Timothy 1:9 knowing G1492 (G5761) this G5124 that G3754 law G3551 is
G2749 not G3756 made G2749 ...
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1 Timothy 1:9. THE LAW. There is no article in the Greek, but St.
Paul's use of the words elsewhere _(e.g. Romans 6:14_; Galatians 5:18)
justifies the translation. The law would not be needed but for...
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IS NOT MADE FOR
(ου κειτα). The use of κειτα for τεθειτα (perfect
passive of τιθημ) is a common enough idiom. See the same point
about law in 1 Timothy 1:18-23; Romans 13:13. For "knowing this"
(ειδ...
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1 Timothy 1:9
The Law our Schoolmaster.
There are some points in which we feel practically that we are not
under the law, but dead to it; that the law is not made for us; but do
we think, therefore,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IT MUST BE REMEMBERED. "Law" is not given to put men right with God,
but to stop those who do evil and to punish them. See note at the end
of Romans 3:31....
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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
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Vers. 9, 10. The specific application is here given of the general
principle just announced not, of course, the only application which it
admitted of, but the one which was of importance for the prese...
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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...
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1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 1 Peter 4:18; 2 Chronicles 32:21; 2
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Knowing [ε ι δ ω ς]. The participle is connected with tiv one, a
man, in the preceding clause.
Is not made [ο υ κ ε ι τ α ι]. Lit. Is not laid down, set,
appointed. Comp. 1 Thessalonians 3:3. This is...
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The law doth not lie against a righteous man — Doth not strike or
condemn him. But against the lawless and disobedient — They who
despise the authority of the lawgiver violate the first commandment,
w...
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Our apostle here declares the persons,
1. whom the law was not made for; and,
2. them for whom it was made.
It was not made for. righteous man, that is, say some, it was not made
for him as. burden...