1 Timothy 6:16 - Exposition

Light unapproachable for the light which no man can approach unto , A.V. ; eternal for everlasting , A.V. Unapproachable ( ἀπρόσιτον ); only here in the New Testament, but found occasionally in. the later classics, corresponding to the more common ἄβατος . Whom no man hath seen, nor can see and Exodus 33:20-23 ). The appearance of the "God of Israel" to Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, related in Exodus 34:9-11 , was that of the Son in anticipation of the Incarnation. The invisibility of the essential Godhead is also predicated in our Lord's saying, "God is a Spirit" ( John 4:24 ). This whole passage is a magnificent embodiment of the attributes of the living God, supreme blessedness and almighty power, universal dominion, and unchangeable being, inscrutable majesty, radiant holiness, anti glory inaccessible and unapproachable by his creatures, save through the mediation of his only begotten Son.