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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 6:10 - 6:10
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the love of money - not the money itself, but the love of it - the wishing to be rich (1Ti 6:9) - “is a root (Ellicott and Middleton: not as English Version, ‘the root’) of all evils.” (So the Greek plural). The wealthiest may be rich not in a bad sense; the poorest may covet to be so (Psa 62:10). Love of money is not the sole root of evils, but it is a leading “root of bitterness” (Heb 12:15), for “it destroys faith, the root of all that is good” [Bengel]; its offshoots are “temptation, a snare, lusts, destruction, perdition.”
coveted after - lusted after.
erred from - literally, “have been made to err from the faith” (1Ti 1:19; 1Ti 4:1).
pierced - (Luk 2:35).
with ... sorrows - “pains”: “thorns” of the parable (Mat 13:22) which choke the word of “faith.” “The prosperity of fools destroys them” (Pro 1:32). Bengel and Wiesinger make them the gnawings of conscience, producing remorse for wealth badly acquired; the harbingers of the future “perdition” (1Ti 6:9).