1 Timothy 6:14 - Exposition

The for this , A.V. without reproach for unrebukable , A.V. The commandment ( τὴν ἐντολὴν ). The phrase is peculiar, and must have some special meaning. Perhaps, as Bishop Wordsworth expounds it, "the commandment" is that law of faith and duty to which Timothy vowed obedience at his baptism, and is parallel to "the good confession." Some think that the command given in 1 Timothy 6:11 , 1 Timothy 6:12 is referred to; and this is the meaning of the A.V. "this." Without spot, without reproach . There is a difference of opinion among commentators, whether these two adjectives ( ἄσπιλον ἀνέπιληπτον ) belong to the commandment or to the person, i.e. Timothy. The introduction of σέ after τηρῆσαι ; the facts that τηρῆσαι τὰς ἐντόλας , without any addition, means "to keep the commandments," and that in the New Testament, ἄσπιλος and ἀνέπιληπτος always are used of persons, not things ( James 1:27 ; 1 Peter 1:19 ; 2 Peter 3:14 ; 1 Timothy 3:2 , 1 Timothy 5:7 ); and the consideration that the idea of the person being found blameless in, or kept blameless unto, the coming of Christ. is a frequent one in the Epistles (Jud 24; 2 Peter 3:14 ; 1 Corinthians 1:8 ; Colossians 1:22 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ),—seem to point strongly, if not conclusively, to the adjectives ἄσπιλον and ἀνεπίληπτον here agreeing with σέ , not with ἐντολήν . £ The appearing ( τὴν ἐπιφανείαν ). The thought of the second advent of the Lord Jesus, always prominent in the mind of St. Paul ( 1 Corinthians 1:7 , 1 Corinthians 1:8 ; 1 Corinthians 4:5 ; 1 Corinthians 15:23 ; Colossians 3:4 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:13 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 .!5; 2 Thessalonians 1:9 , etc.), seems to have acquired fresh intensity amidst the troubles and dangers of the closing years of his life, both as an object of hope and as a motive of action ( 2 Timothy 1:10 ; 2 Timothy 2:12 ; 2 Timothy 4:1 , 2 Timothy 4:8 ; Titus 2:13 ).