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1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2
1Ti_2:1-3 Paul exhorteth to pray and give thanks for all men,
for kings and magistrates especially.
1Ti_2:4-6 God willeth the savation of all men.
1Ti_2:7 Paul’s commission to teach the Gentiles.
1Ti_2:8-10 He directeth how women should be attired,
1Ti_2:11-14 permiteth them not to teach,
1Ti_2:15 promiseth that they shall be saved by child-bearing
on certain conditions.
Timothy (as was said before) was left at Ephesus to manage the affairs of the church there in the absence of Paul, who in this Epistle directs him as to this management. First he exhorts him to see that prayers should be made for all men.
Supplications, dehseiv, for supply of wants.
Prayers, proseucav, signifieth much the same; some will have it to signify petitions for the conservation or increase of what good things we have.
Intercessions, enteuzeiv, prayers for others, whether for the averting of evils from them, or the collation of good things upon them.
And giving of thanks; and blessings of God for good things bestowed upon ourselves or others. These Paul wills should be made uper pantwn, which may be of all men, or for all men, but the next verse plainly shows that it is here rightly rendered
for all men, for there were at this time no kings in the church. Paul here establisheth prayers as a piece of the public ministry in the church of God, and a primary piece; therefore he saith, he exhorts that first of all; not in respect of time so much, as, principally, intimating it a great piece of the public ministry, which he would by no means have neglected. And he would have these prayers put up for all orders and sorts of men, such only excepted of whom St. John speaks, 1Jo_5:16, who had sinned that sin, for which he would not say Christians should pray.