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1 Timothy 4:14
Those whom he calls presbyters in this passage are not those whom we now call by that name—Paul does not usually allow to presbyters as such the power of ordination by the laying on of hands. Rather he says that the gathering of the apostles was present with him when he laid hands in his ordination. He calls this the “council of presbyters” as a designation of honor. It is in accordance with this custom that at the ordination of a bishop not one, but the multitude of bishops present, implement the ordination.

COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 5:3
Paul’s intention is precisely not to give honor to women who have given only a promise of widowhood but rather to give honor to those who have clearly fulfilled the promise by their action.

COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 5:4
It is the children and grandchildren who should learn their religious duties, namely, to care for widowed forebears, and not the widows who are to learn, for it is precisely they who are worthy of assistance, partly because they have no children.

COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 5:9
What is said here applies only to the order of widows and not to deaconesses, as some believe.

COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY
1 Timothy 5:19
It is the duty of the presbyter to function as the common father of both the men and women of the congregation; because the care of both sexes involves seeing and speaking discreetly with the women, pastoral work must be done with great reverence. Furthermore, the duty of presbyters involves the administration of penitential discipline on admitted sinners and the exercise of oversight where such discipline is substandard. For both reasons the presbyters are vulnerable to charges.

COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY
2 Corinthians 1:3
Paul does not begin with suffering but with comfort, giving thanks for that before going on to explain that it came about through suffering.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 1:24
Paul says that he finds no fault with their faith. However, there are some other things which need to be put right, and he is concerned with those.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 3:7
Paul did not say the dispensation of the law but the dispensation of death, speaking rather of its result in order to lessen its attraction.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 3:17
If Paul had wanted to say that the Lord is a spirit, he would have left the article the out. Compare John [4:24], where in speaking to the Samaritan woman, Jesus says that God is a spirit, meaning that he does not have a body. But in this case Paul puts the article in, which proves that he is not saying that the Lord is a spirit but rather that the Spirit is Lord.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 8:23
The two “as for” phrases do not denote a contrast between them but rather emphasize the similarity.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 10:4
By “worldly weapons” Paul means the law of Moses.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 11:29
By “weak” in this case Paul means “sinful.”

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Corinthians 12:4
He saw the beautiful appearance of paradise, the dances of the saints in it and the harmonious sound of its hymnody.

PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH
2 Thessalonians 1:3
Paul seems to say here that the activity of grace has grown, for he does not say that “we give thanks” but that “we are bound to give thanks.” In the same way we deserve to have a complaint lodged against us if we do not render to someone what is justly owed. This is the force of “as is fitting,” where the point is that there has been an increase in the work of grace, such that what has happened in the Thessalonians is rightly referred to God as its source.

COMMENTARY ON 2 THESSALONIANS
2 Thessalonians 1:9
Paul shows here just how seriousness this punishment is by his use of “eternal.” Indeed the punishment of those wicked who have died is completed in a reality that transcends time itself and is forever.

COMMENTARY ON 2 THESSALONIANS
2 Timothy 1:10
The gospel is ancient in the will of the Giver, even if new in the chain of events. God has demonstrated his eternal will in Christ.

COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 1:12
The “deposit” is the pledge of the Spirit given to Paul that he may be preserved.

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2 Timothy 2:8
Some were teaching that it was merely the “assumed body” which came from the seed of David. Paul taught this to combat Simon’s Docetic heresy, by which the resurrection is emptied of meaning.

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2 Timothy 2:15
Paul’s intent here is to urge Timothy to teach with a correct purpose, so that the word is not undermined.

COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY
2 Timothy 2:18
The heretical teaching about the resurrection is that it happens in the process of natural procreation, by which our children succeed us.

COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY