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1Ti_4:9 serves to strengthen the expression immediately preceding (not the thought in 1Ti_3:16, against Heinrichs), whereas in 1Ti_1:15 (comp. also 1Ti_3:1) the same words refer to what follows. The γάρ in 1Ti_4:10 prevents us from connecting them with what comes next. It is no less unsuitable to refer them, as Hofmann does, to the ὅτι following, and to regard εἰς τοῦτο … as a parenthesis. This connection is opposed not only by the harshness of the construction, but also by the consideration that, as a matter of fact, the conduct of the Christian, viz. ἠλπικέναι κ . τ . λ ., needed for Timothy no such confirmation as is given in these words.[162]
[162] This difficulty is concealed in Hofmann by laying the emphasis on Θεῷ ζῶντι , so that πιστὸς ὁ λόγος κ . τ . λ . is to refer to the thought that God is a living God.