1 Timothy 1:3

PART FIRST.

THE APOSTOLIC CHARGE, 1 Timothy 1:1-20.

1. Safe-keeping of a pure gospel doctrine, 1 Timothy 1:3-11.

3. As More fully, according as; to which our translators have inserted so do, in Italics, in order to make a completed statement. Some, as Fairbairn, insert after Macedonia “so I do now;” but that would simply make Paul charge Timothy still to stay at Ephesus. Our so do is preferable, applying it to the charge of this verse. Paul’s meaning is, Do now as I charged thee when I left Ephesus. His verbal charge he would now make a recorded charge.

Went into Macedonia This going from Ephesus into Macedonia cannot be identified with that mentioned in Acts 20:1; for, as appears from Acts 19:22, he had before that going into Macedonia sent Timothy to Corinth. And, as there appears no going to Macedonia and leaving Timothy at Ephesus apparently possible before Paul’s first imprisonment, so this passage requires a second imprisonment. See Introduction.

Some A reprehensive word, implying that these teachers were a certain few, not to be named here, but too well known to Timothy. Note on 1 Timothy 1:20.

Teach no other doctrine In Paul’s Greek a newly coined and very expressive single Greek word, to-be-otherwise-teachers. It expresses the idea that the original gospel of Jesus, as purely and genuinely transmitted through the apostles, must be retained unmixed with any other elements, and without variation.