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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 6:11 - 6:11
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But thou - in contrast to the “some” (1Ti 6:10).
man of God - who hast God as thy true riches (Gen 15:1; Psa 16:5; Lam 3:24). Applying primarily to Timothy as a minister (compare 2Pe 1:21), just as the term was used of Moses (Deu 33:1), Samuel (1Sa 9:6), Elijah, and Elisha; but, as the exhortation is as to duties incumbent also on all Christians, the term applies secondarily to him (so 2Ti 3:17) as a Christian man born of God (Jam 1:18; 1Jo 5:1), no longer a man of the world raised above earthly things; therefore, God’s property, not his own, bought with a price, and so having parted with all right in himself: Christ’s work is to be his great work: he is to be Christ’s living representative.
flee these things - namely, “the love of money” with its evil results (1Ti 6:9, 1Ti 6:10).
follow after righteousness - (2Ti 2:22).
godliness - “piety.” Righteousness is more in relation to our fellow man; piety (“godliness”) to God”; faith is the root of both (see on Tit 2:12).
love - by which “faith worketh.”
patience - enduring perseverance amidst trials.
meekness - The oldest manuscripts read, “meek-spiritedness,” namely, towards the opponents of the Gospel.