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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 4:6 - 4:6
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If thou put ... in remembrance - rather as Greek, “If thou suggest to (bring under the notice of) the brethren,” etc.
these things - namely, the truths stated in 1Ti 4:4, 1Ti 4:5, in opposition to the errors foretold, 1Ti 4:1-3.
minister - “servant.”
nourished up - The Greek is present, not past: “continually being nourished in” (2Ti 1:5; 2Ti 3:14, 2Ti 3:15).
the words of faith - rather, “the words of the faith” (compare 1Ti 4:12).
good doctrine - “the good teaching.” Explanatory of “the faith,” in opposition to the “teachings of demons” (English Version, “doctrines of devils,” 1Ti 4:1) which Timothy was to counteract. Compare “sound doctrine” (1Ti 1:10; 1Ti 6:3; Tit 1:9; Tit 2:1).
whereunto thou hast attained - “the course of which thou hast followed”; hast followed along by tracing its course and accompanying it [Alford]. Thou hast begun to follow up [Bengel]. The same Greek occurs, “thou hast fully known” (2Ti 3:10), “having had perfect understanding” (Luk 1:3). It is an undesigned coincidence that the Greek verb is used only by Paul and Paul’s companion, Luke.