1 Timothy 2 is the second chapter of the

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in the

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of the

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. The author has been traditionally identified as

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since as early as AD 180, Halley, Henry H. ''Halley's Bible Handbook'': an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 24th edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1965. p. 631Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012. although most modern scholars consider the letter

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, perhaps written as late as the first half of the second century AD. This chapter refers to

prayer Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or a deified a ...

(verses 1 to 7, also in verse 8) and to the behaviour of

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(verses 8 to 15).Drury, C., ''73. The Pastoral Epistles'', in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001)
The Oxford Bible Commentary
p. 1223-4

Text

The original text was written in

Koine Greek Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...

. This chapter is divided into 15 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: *

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...

(AD 330–360) *

Codex Alexandrinus The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manu ...

(400–440) *

Codex Freerianus Codex Freerianus, designated by I or 016 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1041 ( von Soden), also called the ''Washington Manuscript of the Pauline Epistles'', is a 5th-century manuscript in an uncial hand on vellum in Greek. It is named afte ...

(c. 450; extant verses 1, 9–13) * Codex Claromontanus (c. 550) *

Codex Coislinianus Codex Coislinianus designated by Hp or 015 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1022 ( Soden), was named also as ''Codex Euthalianus''. It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Pauline epistles, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The t ...

(c. 550)

Instruction on prayer (2:1–7)

Verse 1

:''First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be made for everyone.'' Clare Drury reads this verse as meaning that prayer is to be "the first duty of a member of the community". Although four words, "supplication", "prayer", "intercession", and "thanksgiving", are used, "no distinction is made between them".

Verses 3–4

:''For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.'' *"

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" (Greek: , '): The second of three times in this letter (others: 1:1; 4:10) where God is called "Savior", recalling the 'well-known appellation of Yahweh in the Greek

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' (for examples,

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; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ).

Men and women at prayer (2:8–15; 3:1)

Verse 12

:''And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.'' * "I do not permit a woman to teach" (KJV: "But I suffer not a woman to teach"): Baptist theologian

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interprets this in the sense that women may teach only in private, that is, in their own houses and families, to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not to forsake the law or doctrine of a mother, any more than the instruction of a father (see ; ), and they are to be teachers of good things (cf. ). Timothy surely received a lot of advantage from the private teachings and instructions of his mother

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, and grandmother

Lois Lois is a common English name from the New Testament. Paul the Apostle mentions Lois, the pious grandmother of Saint Timothy in the Second Epistle to Timothy (commending her for her faith in 2 Timothy 1:5). The name was first used by English C ...

, but then women were not to teach in the church. * "To have authority over a man" (KJV: "to usurp authority over the man"): Gill sees this as not to be done in civil and political things, or in things relating to civil government; and in things domestic, or the affairs of the family, therefore also not in ecclesiastical things, nor what relate to the church, for one part of rule is to feed the church with knowledge and understanding; and for a woman to do this, can be seen as to usurp an authority over the man. * "To be in silence": according to Gill is "to sit and hear quietly", learning, not teaching, as in .

Verse 13

:''For Adam was formed first, then Eve.'' *"Was formed" (Greek: ): having the same root as the word used in the

in , , "The Lord God formed man...;" and in of the beasts of the field, whereas in man is called , "the thing made;" and God is , "he that made it;" the words "plaster", "plastic", or "protoplasm" are also from the same root.

Verse 14

:''And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.''

Verse 15

:''But a woman will be saved through having children, if she perseveres in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.''

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opens with the words ''This is a faithful saying'', ''The saying is sure'', or ''The saying is commonly accepted''.: NRSV The words may refer back to the latter part of this chapter, including this verse, or they may be read as introductory to the material in chapter 3 about the office of a

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References

Sources

External links

* King James Bible - Wikisource
English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate''Online Bible'' at GospelHall.org
(ESV, KJV, Darby, American Standard Version, Bible in Basic English)
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