Jensens survey of the old testament adam 553
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and Crete. Timothy’s task was “to direct,
organize, and supervise the work of the
churches and to help repel and reject
certain errorists whose e orts were
threatening to corrupt that work. He had
been temporarily left behind to carry on the
work which Paul would do if he were there
himself” (D. Edmond Hiebert, First Timothy,
p. 10). Fortunately, the doctrines and
applications of the epistles are una ected
by questions about the men’s official title.
2. Philemon was addressed to others besides
the man Philemon (see Philem. 1).
3. The rite of circumcision in this case was
to keep open the door of witness to
unbelieving Jews who would learn that
Timothy was half Gentile (Acts 16:3).
4. Homer A. Kent, The Pastoral Epistles, p.
19.
5. Sometimes a trait can only be implied
from a Scripture passage.
6. James Stalker sees in this description of
the church at Corinth a picture of the
average church of Paul’s missionary
journeys. The Life of St. Paul, p. 108.
7. Some hold that Paul wrote from Corinth
in Greece.
8. Read Paul’s earlier prediction of this in
Acts 20:28-30.
9. One writer has pointed out this
symmetrical structure of 1 Timothy,
centered on the three hymns of the epistle:
Charge (1:3-16); Hymn (1:17);
Charge (1:18-20)
Charge
(2:1—3:15);
Hymn
(3:16); Charge (4:1—6:2c)
Charge
(6:2d-15a);
Hymn
(6:156-16); Charge (6:17-21).
(See Wilbur B. Wallis, “I Timothy,” in The
Wycliffe Bible Commentary, pp. 1368-70.)
10. The two-o ce organization of the New
Testament church gradually merged into
this three-o ce arrangement in the
centuries that followed: (1) pastor (as
preacher-teacher-shepherd);
(2)
elders
(assisting the pastor especially in spiritual
matters); (3) deacons (assisting the pastor
especially in physical matters, such as the
nances of the church). The thing to note
here is that the tasks that needed to be
done were always present; the titles given
to those who performed the tasks varied
from church to church and from century to
century.
11. Some classify the widows of 5:9-10 as a
distinct group, in which case the number of
groups is five.
12. The last phrase of 6:5 introduces the
paragraphs 6:6-10: “who think that
godliness is a means to nancial gain”
(NIV).
13. Outline from W. Graham Scroggie, Know
Your Bible, 1:245.
14. In one verse (1 Tim. 2:10) another
Greek word translated “godliness” appears:
theo (God) sebeia (reverence).
15. W. Graham Scroggie, Know Your Bible,
2:243. Scroggie suggests that these sayings
may point to “certain Logia current in the
early Churches, or the use of liturgical
forms.”
16. Quoted by W. Graham Scroggie Know
Your Bible, 2:251.
17. Merrill C. Tenney, ed., The Zondervan
Pictorial Bible Dictionary, p. 857.
18. Troas may have been the place of Paul’s
arrest.
19. On the view that Timothy may have got
to visit Paul, see Frank J. Goodwin, A
Harmony of the Life of St. Paul, p. 191.
20. H.C.G. Moule, The Second Epistle to
Timothy, p. 14.
21. A metaphor is an implied comparison
between two different things.
22. Homer A. Kent, The Pastoral Epistles, p.
