6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
which in His own times He shall shew -- the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,
according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,
(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law,
and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit --
having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself, in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth -- in him;
in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
and now having been made manifest, also, through prophetic writings, according to a command of the age-during God, having been made known to all the nations for obedience of faith --
according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
`I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
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Commentary on 1 Timothy 2 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 2
In this chapter Paul treats,
1Ti 2:1-8
Here is,
1Ti 2:9-15