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1Ti 6:11. Ὦ ἄνθρωπε τοῦ Θεοῦ) O man of God. So the LXX. for the Hebrew, man of God, i.e. a prophet, a mediating messenger of God to men, one removed from earthly things.-ταῦτα φεῦγε, flee these things) He resumes, after the parenthesis, the words which he had spoken at the end of 1Ti 6:5. Therefore the expression, these things, is to be referred to 1Ti 6:4-5 : for both enumerations form an evident antithesis [to what follows in 1Ti 6:11]: to this antithesis flee, follow, belong.-δικαιοσύνην, righteousness) This comprehends all the other things, and is again put in the first place, 2Ti 2:22.-εὐσέβειαν, godliness) The antithesis is the abuse of godliness, 1Ti 6:5. πίστιν, ἀγάπην, faith, love) Their antitheses are envy, strife, 1Ti 6:4. ὑπομονὴν, patience) by which even calumnious railings are endured, ibid. πρᾳότητα, meekness) by which evil surmisings are overcome, ibid.