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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring . App-102 . teachers of the law . Greek. nomodidaskalos . See Luke 5:17 . understanding , &c, There are double negatives in this phrase, me at the beginning, and mete, mete , neither, nor. whereof = concerning ( App-104 .) what. affirm . Greek. diabebaioomai. Only here and Titus 3:8 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Timothy 1:6

from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;Hendriksen's description of their teaching as evidenced by this verse is as follows:It is like useless reasoning, argumentation that gets nowhere, dry as dust disputation, wrangling about fanciful tales anent pedigrees! It has finally landed them in the no-man's-land of ceremonial subtleties, in the dreary marsh of ridiculous hairsplitting. And the owner of that quagmire is Satan, who heads the welcoming committee.[21] It... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.Teachers of the law ... This is nothing but the law of Moses affording further indubitable proof that Judaizing heresies are the false doctrine in view here. Their "teaching" had no substance whatever; it was all rant, cant and nonsense. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Timothy 1:7

1 Timothy 1:7. Desiring to be teachers of the law;— The gospel alone was too simple a thing for the Judaizing Christians; and their partiality for the law of Moses was so great, that they not only considered the whole of it, even the ceremonial part, as obligatory upon themselves, but they would have imposed it upon the Gentile converts; though they understood not the grand design of the law with respect to the Jews, much less the freedom of the Gentile converts from any subjection to it. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Timothy 1:6

6. From which—namely, from a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned, the well-spring of love. having swerved—literally, "having missed the mark (the 'end') to be aimed at." It is translated, "erred," 1 Timothy 6:21; 2 Timothy 2:18. Instead of aiming at and attaining the graces above named, they "have turned aside (1 Timothy 5:15; 2 Timothy 4:4; Hebrews 12:13) unto vain jangling"; literally, "vain talk," about the law and genealogies of angels (1 Timothy 1:7; Titus 3:9; Titus 1:10);... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Timothy 1:7

7. Sample of their "vain talk" (1 Timothy 1:6). Desiring—They are would-be teachers, not really so. the law—the Jewish law (Titus 1:14; Titus 3:9). The Judaizers here meant seem to be distinct from those impugned in the Epistles to the Galatians and Romans, who made the works of the law necessary to justification in opposition to Gospel grace. The Judaizers here meant corrupted the law with "fables," which they pretended to found on it, subversive of morals as well as of truth. Their error was... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Timothy 1:3-11

A. The task Timothy faced 1:3-11Paul penned these opening words to remind Timothy to correct teachers in the Ephesian church who were majoring on minor matters in their Bible teaching. In so doing he reminded Timothy of his own responsibility as a communicator of God’s truth."That the false teachers were . . . probably elders [of the house-churches in Ephesus] is supported by several items from 1 Timothy: their presuming to be ’teachers of the law’ (1 Timothy 1:7), a responsibility of the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Timothy 1:3-20

II. TIMOTHY’S MISSION IN EPHESUS 1:3-20In chapter 1 Paul charged Timothy to remain faithful to the task with which Paul had entrusted him in Ephesus. He began by reminding Timothy what that task was and how he should carry out his chief duty. Then he exhorted Timothy to be faithful. He reminded his young protégé of God’s power to transform lives and warned him of the danger of acting contrary to his own spiritually sensitive conscience."The absence of . . . [a thanksgiving] here supports the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Timothy 1:6-7

The "Law" is the Mosaic Code but also the Scriptures of Paul’s day, the Old Testament, particularly the legal parts of it. Paul probably did not mean that these erring teachers failed to understand the letter of their content, though this may have been true of some of them. He probably meant that they did not understand what they were really saying and not saying by their emphasis. They missed the point of the Law.Their "main interest seems to have been to rival contemporary Rabbinical... read more

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