Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comRobertson Word Pictures - 1 Timothy 1:10 - 1:10
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
For abusers of themselves with men (arsenokoitais). Late compound for sodomites. In N.T. only here and 1Co 6:9.
Men-stealers (andrapodistais). Old word from andrapodizō (from anēr, man, pous, foot, to catch by the foot), to enslave. So enslavers, whether kidnappers (men-stealers) of free men or stealers of the slaves of other men. So slave-dealers. By the use of this word Paul deals a blow at the slave-trade (cf. Philemon).
Liars (pseustais). Old word, see Rom 3:4.
False swearers (epiorkois). Old word (epi, orkos, oath). Perjurers. Only here in N.T. For similar lists, see note on 1Co 5:11; 1Co 6:9.; Gal 5:19.; Rom 1:28.; Rom 13:13; Col 3:5; Eph 5:5; 2Ti 3:2.
The sound doctrine (tēi hugiainousēi didaskaliāi). Dative case after antikeitai, for which verb see Gal 5:17 for the conflict between the Spirit and the flesh. “The healthful (hugiainō, old word for being well, as Luk 5:31; 3Jo 1:2, in figurative sense in N.T. only in the Pastorals) teaching.” See Tit 1:9; 2Ti 4:3.