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1Ti_6:6. Ἔστι δὲ κ . τ . λ .] Calvin: eleganter et non sine ironica correctione in contrarium sensum eadem verba retorquet. The meaning is: piety is certainly a πορισμός , but in another and higher sense than the heretics suppose; ἔστι is opposed to νομιζόντων (1Ti_6:5), Wiesinger.
πορισμὸς μέγας κ . τ . λ .] πορισμός has here the same meaning as before; Luther wrongly says: “it is, however, a great gain, one that is blessed,” etc.
ἡ εὐσέβεια μετὰ αὐταρκείας ] “Piety when united with contentment,” which certainly belongs of necessity to true piety. The gain of which the apostle is here thinking is not the heavenly, eternal blessings (Theodoret: τὴν γὰρ αἰώνιον ἡμῖν πορίζει ζωήν ; Calvin, Heydenreich, Matthies, and others), but the gain to which we are directed in the next verses, 7–10. Several expositors hold the gain to be the αὐταρκεία itself (so Chrysostom, Bengel: nam affert αὐταρκείαν ; de Wette, and others[203]); but this reference is not indicated in the added words: μετὰ αὐταρκείας . On αὐτάρκεια , comp. Php_4:11 : ἐγὼ ἔμαθον ἐν οἷς εἰμι αὐτάρκης εἶναι .
[203] Van Oosterzee: “In one short, compressed sentence, the apostle expresses two chief ideas, that true piety of itself makes content, and that by doing so it brings great gain.”