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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:1 - 2:1
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1Ti 2:1-15. Public worship. Direction as to intercessions for all men, since Christ is a ransom for all. The duties of men and women respectively in respect to public prayer. Woman’s subjection; her sphere of duty.
therefore - taking up again the general subject of the Epistle in continuation (2Ti 2:1). “What I have therefore to say to thee by way of a charge (1Ti 1:3, 1Ti 1:18), is,” etc.
that, first of all ... be made - Alford takes it, “I exhort first of all to make.” “First of all,” doubtless, is to be connected with “I exhort”; what I begin with (for special reasons), is ... As the destruction of Jerusalem drew near, the Jews (including those at Ephesus) were seized with the dream of freedom from every yoke; and so virtually “’blasphemed” (compare 1Ti 1:20) God’s name by “speaking evil of dignities” (1Ti 6:1; 2Pe 2:10; Jud 1:8). Hence Paul, in opposition, gives prominence to the injunction that prayer be made for all men, especially for magistrates and kings (Tit 3:1-3) [Olshausen]. Some professing Christians looked down on all not Christians, as doomed to perdition; but Paul says all men are to be prayed for, as Christ died for all (1Ti 2:4-6).
supplications - a term implying the suppliant’s sense of need, and of his own insufficiency.
prayers - implying devotion.
intercessions - properly the coming near to God with childlike confidence, generally in behalf of another. The accumulation of terms implies prayer in its every form and aspect, according to all the relations implied in it.