John Bengel Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:5 - 2:5

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John Bengel Commentary - 1 Timothy 2:5 - 2:5


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1Ti 2:5. Εἷς) one, common to all. They who have not this one God, by one Mediator, have none, [-and therefore they are not saved. Yet GOD wishes all men to be saved by the saving knowledge of God and the Mediator; but there is a legitimate and most holy order in the exercise of that will, wherewith men ought to receive it. All mankind constitute as it were one man before God; wherefore it is right, that they who have obtained salvation should intercede for those who are farther distant from it. If that were done, how much better would be the condition of the human race! Let him pray, I request, who knows how to pray.-V. g.]-γὰρ, for) 1Ti 2:4 is proved from 1Ti 2:5; 1Ti 2:1 from 1Ti 2:4. The whole is universal. Comp. Isa 45:22.-εἷς καὶ, one also) [who is Mediator.] He does not say, also one; therefore the stress of the voice does not so much fall upon the adjective, one, as upon the substantives. We could not rejoice that there is a God, if we did not rejoice also in the Man Mediator.-εἷς-εἷς, one-one) Mar 12:29; Mar 12:32; 1Co 8:6; Eph 4:5-6.-μεσίτης, Mediator) This is as it were an epithet of the noun, man; and the word, one, coheres at the same time with both of these.-ἄνθρωπος, man) The Saviour, not without reason, is here called man, rather than God; that the reason may be marked, why all men should be converted to this Mediator, who [i.e. inasmuch as He, a man] has given Himself for all [men]: comp. Rom 5:15, note. The article is not added. Again, in turn, he calls Him God, ch. 1Ti 3:16.