Vincent Word Studies - 1 Timothy 6:14

Vincent Word Studies - 1 Timothy 6:14 - 6:14

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Vincent Word Studies - 1 Timothy 6:14 - 6:14

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Commandment (ἐντολὴν)

Usually of a single commandment or injunction, but sometimes for the whole body of the moral precepts of Christianity, as 2Pe 2:21; 2Pe 3:2. The reference may be explained by ἡ παραγγελία the commandment, 1Ti 1:5, meaning the gospel as the divine standard of conduct and faith. Comp. 2Ti 1:14. The phrase τηρεῖν τὴν ἐντολὴν to keep the commandment is Johannine. See Joh 14:15, Joh 14:21; Joh 15:10; 1Jo 2:3, 1Jo 2:4; 1Jo 3:22, 1Jo 3:24; 1Jo 5:3.

Without spot (ἄσπιλον)

Unsullied. Comp. Jam 1:27; 1Pe 1:19; 2Pe 3:14.

Appearing (ἐπιφανείας)

See on 2Th 2:8. In the Books of Maccabees it is used to describe appearances and interventions of God for the aid of his people. See 2 Macc. 2:21; 3:24; 14:15; 15:27; 3 Macc. 5:8, 51. In 2Ti 4:18, and Tit 2:13, it denotes, as here, the second coming of Christ. In 2Ti 1:10, his historical manifestation, for which also the verb ἐπιφαίνειν is used, Tit 2:11; Tit 3:4. for the Lord is second advent Paul commonly uses παρουσία presence; once the verb φανεροῦν to make manifest (Col 3:4), and once ἀποκάλυψις revelation (2Th 1:7). It is quite possible that the word ἐπιφάνεια, so characteristic of these Epistles, grew out of the Gnostic vocabulary, in which it was used of the sudden appearing of the hitherto concealed heavenly aeon, Christ. This they compared to a sudden light from heaven; and Christ, who thus appeared, though only docetically, without an actual fleshly body, was styled σωτὴρ savior, although his oneness with the God of creation was denied. The Creator and the Redeemer were not the same, but were rather opposed. Christ was only a factor of a great cosmological process of development. As Neander observes: “The distinctive aim of the Gnostics was to apprehend the appearance of Christ and the new creation proceeding from him in their connection with the evolution of the whole universe.”