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1Ti 1:13. Βλάσφημον, a blasphemer) against God.-διώκτην, a persecutor) against holy men, lest others should be converted.-ὑβριστὴν, despiser) [Engl. Vers., injurious], in rejecting my own salvation. This threefold relation to God, his neighbour, and himself, is frequent in this epistle especially, and in that to Titus; see presently at 1Ti 1:14, which forms an antithesis to this verse: likewise 1Ti 1:5; 1Ti 1:9. Tit 2:12, where the word εὐσεβῶς, godly, is opposed to ἁσεβείᾳ, ungodliness, and yet the two words, soberly, and righteously, are opposed to worldly lusts. So here love (1Ti 1:14) alone has a threefold relation: it is love towards God, of which the opposite is a blasphemer; it is love towards the Church, of which the opposite is a persecutor; it is love towards himself, of which the opposite is a despiser.-ἠλεήθην, I obtained mercy) This word is resumed, as if after a parenthesis, in 1Ti 1:16. This sense of mercy was perpetual in the mind of the apostle, 1Ti 1:2, note.-ὅτι, because) Ignorance does not deserve pardon in itself; but in classifying the reasons which might impel a man to reject salvation, it is opposed to pride and every higher degree of wickedness.