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1Ti 6:15. Καιροῖς ἰδίοις, in His own fitting times) The plural number is to be noticed, which does not much abridge (does not confine within very narrow limits) the shortness of the times: His own, viz. of which the reason (the regulating principle), power, knowledge, and revelation, is in His own hand. So ἴδιος, ch. 1Ti 2:6; 2Ti 1:9; Tit 1:3. A divine reservation.-δείξει, He shall show) To be shown is an expression used of what formerly existed. God will show Him (Act 3:20), of whom a most magnificent panegyric follows, involving in it the glory of Christ itself [as well as that of God the Father].-ὁ μακάριος καὶ μόνος δυνάστης, the blessed and only Potentate) These are two predicates:[52] the first, with the addition also of only, is treated of in 1Ti 6:16 [“who only hath immortality”]; for the word μακάριος and ἀκήρατος[53] have the same derivation, and signify immortal; and hence honour (1Ti 6:16) is due to Him: the second is treated of presently after in this verse, and hence power everlasting (1Ti 6:16) is due to Him. This is the reason why men in power, and death threatened by them, should not be feared in the confession of the Gospel. So eternal power is mentioned at Rom 1:20.-τῶν βασιλευότων-ΚΥΡΙΕΥΌΝΤΩΝ, of those reigning-of those ruling) Spiritually and politically.
[52] Who is the blessed and only Potentate. ὁ δυνάστης is not the subject of δείξει, but a predicate of its subject.-ED.
[53] Bengel derives μακάριος from μὴ, and κήρ, death; and so ἀκήρατος from α privative, and κὴρ, death. The derivation of ἀκήρατος is rather from α and κεράννυμι: and μακάριος is of dubious etymon. Some give χαίρω (?).-ED.