Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 1:6 - 1:6
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
From which - namely, from a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned, the well-spring of love.
having swerved - literally, “having missed the mark (the ‘end’) to be aimed at.” It is translated, “erred,” 1Ti 6:21; 2Ti 2:18. Instead of aiming at and attaining the graces above named, they “have turned aside (1Ti 5:15; 2Ti 4:4; Heb 12:13) unto vain jangling”; literally, “vain talk,” about the law and genealogies of angels (1Ti 1:7; Tit 3:9; Tit 1:10); 1Ti 6:20, “vain babblings and oppositions.” It is the greatest vanity when divine things are not truthfully discussed (Rom 1:21) [Bengel].