Verse 10
For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe.
Of the living God ... The Christian hope contrasted starkly with the hope of the pagan world which was set upon dead idols.
Who is the Saviour of all men ... "This is not universalism. The key is in the words, `specially of them that believe.'"[23] It is a fact, of course, that God is able and willing to save all men, and that all who are ever saved will be saved by him; and it is in this sense that "he is the Saviour of all men." As Lenski said, "We know why so many are not saved (Matthew 23:37)."[24]
[23] Ronald A. Ward, op. cit., p. 73.
[24] R. C. H. Lenski, op. cit., p. 639.
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