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1Ti 6:5. Διαπαρατριβαὶ) διατριβὴ, a scholastic disputation or treatise. The insertion of παρὰ renders it significant of something perverse, as κατατομὴ for περιτομὴ, Php 3:2. It is opposed to accede (consent), 1Ti 6:3.-διαπαρατριβαὶ διεφθαρμένων ἀνθρώπων) perverse disputings, which only become men of corrupt minds, 2Ti 3:8 : men corrupted in mind.-νομιζόντων, thinking) i.e. inasmuch as they think, for there is no and put before it; comp. Rom 2:18; Rom 2:20; 2Ti 2:21; Heb 6:6, where the use of the participles is the same.-πορισμὸν) a gain[48] (means of making gain), a thing given for the sake of procuring property.
[48] The article before εὐσέβειαν, and not before πορισμὸν, show the construction to be, “that godliness is a gain,” a way to advance one’s worldly interest not as Engl. Vers., “that gain is godliness.”-ED.