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[ { "from": "human", "value": "without perceiving the key-note which rings through it all;--_sobriety_ or _sobermindedness_. The aged men are to be taught to be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The aged women to be" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(_Rep._, IV. p. 431). Similarly, Aristotle tells us that the lowest bodily pleasures are the sphere in which this virtue of self-control is specially displayed; that is, those bodily pleasures which the other animals share with man, and which are consequently shown to be slavish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For whether we went out of our mind (ἐξέστημεν)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(σωφρονοῦμεν," }, { "from": "human", "value": "R.V.)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(2 Cor. v. 13). The Apostle" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hereby know we that we know Him, if we _keep His commandments_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as the translation of διδασκαλία, while they have in most cases substituted" }, { "from": "human", "value": "for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying; not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For all these reasons it is a difficult and surprising thing that there should ever be a good slave. And yet this is the class which St. Paul singles out as being able in a peculiar way to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To _adorn_ the doctrine of God." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In all things. That all-embracing addition to the Apostolic injunction must not be lost sight of. There is no duty so humble, no occupation so trifling, that it cannot be made into an opportunity for adorning our religion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whether ye ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our gr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They lose a great source of strength by neglecting to cultivate what would be a powerful motive to help them on the right way. Nor does the loss end here. With it they lose much of the interest which they would otherwise take in all that helps to" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and which is to continue until" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy kingdom come" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Among the foolish charges which have been brought against the Revisers is that of favouring Arian tendencies by blurring those texts which teach the Divinity of Jesus Christ. The present passage would be a suf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in which he finds it necessary to make it a qualification for the office of bishop or overseer, that the persons appointed should be such as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God. That is the kernel of the whole matter. The fact that a few rule over the many is not to be traced to a world-wide usurpation of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Paul had too much tact to be a preacher of sedition: he wished that the name of Christian should stand well, and that a Christian should be a man of order, on good terms with the police, and of good repute in the eyes of the pagans" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is quite possible that the law which he administers is unjust, or that he administers it in such a way as to make it work injustice, so that good deeds are punished and evil deeds are rewarded. But nowhere is good punished _as_ good, or evil rewarded _as_ evil. When Naboth wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": and, although the words are no doubt intended to have a general meaning as well, yet the context suggests that their primary meaning in this place is that Christians are always, not only to be obedient to rulers and magistrates, but to be ready to support and assist them in an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness towards all men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To speak evil of no man; not to be contentious; to be gentle, showing all meekness towards all men. Let us consider calmly what such wor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and His love toward man, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He poured out upon us richly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ (1 Pet. i. 2). The goodness and love of God the Father towards mankind is the source of man's redemption. From all eternity He saw man's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but by the work of the Blessed Trinity, that we were placed in a state of salvation. He does not stop to make the qualifications, which, however true and necessary, do not alter this fact. In the case of adults, who are converted to Christianity,--and it is of such that he is th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "occurs) the reference to baptism by water is indisputable, for the water is expressly mentioned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himsel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved _through water_: which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism. St. Peter says that Noah and his family" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it likely, we ask," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All which is the old cry of the captain of the host of Syria." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Behold, I thought, he will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We were buried therefore with Him through baptism (διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(vi. 4). And again to the Colossians:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Having been buried with Him in baptism, wherein ye were also raised with Him thro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the same thing as the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye were washed, were sanctified, were justified, are all in the aorist. So also here:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He saved us, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He poured out upon us are both in the aorist. And in both cases the natural reference is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man that is heretical after a first and second admonition refuse; knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But as many as _fall away from_ (ἀφίστανται, 1 Tim. iv. 1)" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heresy, as Tertullian points out, is a word of Greek origin, and the idea which lies at the root of it is _choice_.[85] Choosing for oneself what pleases oneself, independently of other considerations;--that is the fundamental notion on which later meanings of the term are based...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here the false teachers are evidently inside the Church, corrupting its members; not outside, inducing its members to leave it. For the prophecy continues:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Woe unto the world, said our blessed Lord," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Matt. xviii. 7). Human nature being what it is, it is morally impossible that no one should ever lead another into sin. But that fact does not destroy the responsibility of the individual who ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "occur. There are other passages, in which the thing is plainly mentioned, although this name for it is not used. It has been said that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "[86] But they certainly treated opposition to their ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he that denieth the Father and the Son (1 John ii. 22: comp. ii. 26; iv. 1, 3). In his letter to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he speaks of the" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "such a person after once or twice admonishing him? Certainly not that he is to excommunicate him; the passage has nothing to do with formal excommunication. It is possible to maintain that the direction here given may _imply_ excommunication; but it is also possible to maintain ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To be severe, when severity is imperatively called for, is not only charity to the offenders, it" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ": not from _hærere_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Higher Life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands. For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--and about Timothy himself. Dark days are coming. False doctrine will be openly preached and will not lack hearers; and utterly un-Christian conduct and conversation will become grievously prevalent. And, while the godly are persecuted, evil men will wax worse and worse. This s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and a pattern of steadfast endurance. There is the example of Onesiphorus with his courageous devotion. And there is the sure hope of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee. Literally" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It does not _necessarily_ imply that there has once been a bright flame, which has been allowed to die down, leaving only smouldering embers. But this is the natural meaning ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to kindle it into a flame, and see that it is directed to holy ends and exercised in noble service. God's royal gifts of intellect and will cannot be flung away, cannot be left unused, cannot be extinguished. For good or for evil they are ours; and they are deathless. But, thoug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me (th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Οἱ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ cannot be equivalent to οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας. If St. Paul meant the latter, why did he not write it? Secondly, it is the proconsular province of Asia that is meant, that is the western portion of Asia Minor, and not the continent of Asia. Thirdly, the" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in connexion with the present, and of Onesiphorus himself only in connexion with the past: there is also the still more marked fact that in the final salutations, while greetings are sent to Prisca and Aquila, and from Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, and Claudia, yet it is once more" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in discussing them one would have to be specially careful in order to avoid the words" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in connexion with them. It does not much matter what meaning we give to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Mark xii. 27). And (2) the living souls of the departed are still conscious: their bodies are asleep in this world, but their spirits are awake in the other. For this truth we are not dependent upon the disputable meaning of the parable of Dives and Lazarus; although we can har...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May we not pray for them to aid them in their progress? And if, with St. Paul's prayer for Onesiphorus before us, we are convinced that we may pray for them, does it not become our bounden duty to do so? On what grounds can we accept the obligation of praying for the spiritual a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By this, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and as one of the revisers his authority is great. And the prayer in the Burial Service," }, { "from": "human", "value": "is equally patient of this meaning, even if it does not fairly demand it. For we do ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All forsook me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O Lord, let the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the midst of us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Timothy the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, ... teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses. The last three words are remarkable; and they are still more remarkable in the original Greek. St. Paul does not say simply" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(ἐνώπιον or παρόντων πολλῶν μαρτύρων) but" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard (ἤκουσας)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But in every succession (of bishops) and in every city there prevails just what the Law and the Prophets and the Lord proclaim (Eus., H.E., IV. xxii. 3). Irenæus, in his great work against heresies, which was completed about A.D. 185, says," }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suffer hardships with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be it so, that even to Christians a prison is distasteful. We were called to active service under the Living God from the very moment of our response to the baptismal formula. No soldier comes to the war surrounded by luxuries, nor goes into action from a comfortable bed-room, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I may lay aside my arms and my drill: all enemies are conquered: there will never be another war. And the Christian, so long as he remains in this world, can never think that he may cease to watch and to pray, because the victory is won, and he will never be tempted any more. It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(1 Thess. iv. 11, 12). He has a duty to perform" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The athlete who competes in the games does not receive a crown, unless he has contended _lawfully_, _i.e._, according to rule (νομίμως, νόμος). Even if he seems to be victorious, he nevertheless is not crowned, because he has violated the well-known conditions. And what is the r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The husbandman that laboureth must be the first to partake of the fruits: not, as the A. V.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "which seems to imply that he must partake of the fruits before he labours. What is the meaning of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel: wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound. Therefore I endure all things for the elects' sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suffer hardship with me, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take thy part in suffering hardship, is better than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou therefore endure hardship, which while inserting a spurious" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "omi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember Jesus Christ." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember Jesus Christ as one _risen from the dead_. Jesus Christ has not only endured every kind of suffering, including its extreme form, death, but He has conquered it all by rising again. He is not only the sinless Sufferer, but also the triumphant Victor over death and hell....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "does more than this. It not only shows us that the evil against which we have such a weary struggle in this life, both in others and in ourselves, is not (in spite of depressing appearances) permanently triumphant; it also assures us that there is another and a better life in wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is to remember One Who claimed to be the promised Saviour of the world, and Who _proved His claim_. By its countless needs, by many centuries of yearning, by its consciousness of failure and of guilt, the whole human race had been led to look forward to the coming of some great ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is not only truly God, but truly man. He was risen from the dead, and yet He was born of flesh and blood, and born of that royal line of which Timothy, who" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as the Greek shows. An enclitic cannot be emphatic. The Apostle is not contrasting his Gospel with that of other preachers, as if he would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Others may teach what they please, but this is the substance of _my_ Gospel. And Jerome is c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "because it is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He perhaps changes the expression from" }, { "from": "human", "value": "to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The word of God is not bound. The Apostle is imprisoned; but his tongue and his companion's pen are free. He can still teach those who come to him; can still dictate letters for others to Luke and the faithful few who visit him. He can still, as in his first Roman imprisonment, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The word of God is not bound." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The word of God is not bound," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear. Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of which he is to put his flock in remembrance, it seems most natural to refer the expression to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "with which the previous section closes. He is to remind others (and thereby strengthen his own courage and faith), that to die for Chri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to whom Timothy is to commit the substance of the Apostle's teaching (ver. 2), or whether he is not now taking a wider view and including the whole of the disciple's flock. It is impossible to determine this with certainty; and it is not a question of much moment. One thing is c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. In the previous section St. Paul exhorted Timothy to be ready to suffer for Christ: here he charges him to work for Him; and in the language which he uses he indicates that such work i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(ἀνεπαίσχυντος) is a rare formation, which occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Its precise meaning is not quite certain. The more simple and frequent form (ἀναίσχυντος) means" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_i.e._, one who does not feel shame when he ought to do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is (according to St. Paul's graphic word) to make a circuit in order to avoid such things, to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(περιίστασο; comp. Tit. iii. 9). These empty profanities, with their philosophic pretentiousness, had done much harm already, and would do ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some, in the English phrase" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "conveys an impression, which is not contained in the Greek (τινων), that the number of those who were led astray was small. The Greek indicates neither a large nor a small number; but what is told us leads to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.... And like as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth; men ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock; and from your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is uncertain. The two most important interpretations are: (1) the _whole_ time between Christ's first and second coming, and (2) the portion _immediately_ before Christ's second coming. Probability is greatly in favour of the latter; for the other makes the expression rather mea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whereas" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jesus raised up Lazarus, and he is alive" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is probable that the Apostle derived these names from a current and (being quoted by him) _true_ tradition of the Jewish Church. And in a s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and Jambres from one which means" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But abide thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every scriptur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rationalism, and (adopting that term as convenient) the following clear statement, borrowed from another writer, will show in a striking way where it was that St. Paul wished Timothy to part company with the principles of his opponents." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is probably plural (παρὰ τίνων); but a reading which makes it singular (παρὰ τίνος) is strongly supported. The plural must include all Timothy's chief instructors in the faith, especially the earliest, as is clear from the nature of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(ἱερὰ γράμματα) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. The usual expression is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(αἱ γραφαί); and once (Rom. i. 2) we have" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(γραφαὶ ἅγιαι). Here both substantive and adjective are unusual. Th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(γράμματα) in this passage, should be compared the use of the same word in Christ's discourse at Jerusalem after the miracle at the pool of Bethesda, where he shows the Jews how hopeless their unbelief is, and how vain their appeal to Moses, who is really their accuser." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. This is the Revisers' rendering. Besides one or two smaller changes, they have made two important alterations of the A. V. (1) They have subst...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zechariah the son of Barachiah instead of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zechariah the son of Jehoiada" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No inspiration theory can stand for a moment which does not leave room for the personal agency and individual peculiarities of the sacred authors and the exercise of their natural faculties in writing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They produce that discipline which ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be _thou_ sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an Evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. For _I_ am already being poured out as a drink-offering, and the time of my departure is at hand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who have loved and do love His appearing." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: For Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is useful to me for ministering. But Tychicus I s...