A Commentary On The New Testament Author:Bernhard Weiss Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO TIMOTHY [ Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our h... more »ope ; (2) unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Paul calls himself an Apostle of Christ to indicate, 1 that he is writing a letter not of friendship but of an official character. For since he is by divine command an Apostle he dare not write as he otherwise would do to his friend Timothy. He feels bound to declare that he is speaking to him in his official capacity. But how willing he is to follow this command, he points out by designating God as our Deliverer, i. e. as the One who has made all arrangements for delivering us from eternal destruction and thereby for our salvation. But at the same time he refers this command to Christ, who transmitted it to him when He sent him to preach. Christ is the Mediator of our hope, since by carrying out the divine redemptive purpose He brings us to the goal 2 of our hopes. He calls Timothy his genuine child, because the latter, through the faith which he had awakened in him, had been begotten in a higher than a physical sense as his child. He thereby points out, why he needed such special motives, in not addressing himself to him with the words of fatherly affection, but in his official capacity. He expands the customary salutation by a reference to the mercy of God, which induced Him to have compassion upon us and to become our Deliverer. But as usuul he bases everything that he (3) As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine, (4) neither to give heed to wishes Timothy to do upon God and Christ, because the...« less