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First Timothy YI. 5. 161
ceit, without at the same time understanding anything, etc.
Such
persons are wanting in the knowledge of the truth which leads to
godliness, consequently in that knowledge which is wholesome ;
its place come ^i]Ti]oeig, questions of controversy, and Xoyofiaxiai,
verbal altercations, which do not lead to godliness, and thereby to
spiritual soundness ; hence voaelv. This metaphor, and particularly
its use here, is explained by the peculiar form of this hepoS. ; comp.
the Gen. Introd. Z7)T-)]aeig, controversial questions, comp. on Tit. iii.
9, and above, i. 4. Aoyoiiaxlai, = verbal altercations, de verbis magis
quam de rebus (Calvin) ; a controversy which can spring only from
selfishness, and not from love to the truth, as the results also show.
On nepi as denoting the object about which, so to speak, anything
moves = circa, comp. Winer's Grr., § 49, I, p. 361. Leo and De
Wette are for understanding vooelv = " to suffer in the mania for."
The opposition to vy. didaoKaXia, vyiatveiv iv moretj Tit. i. 13, does
not point to such a meaning ; the signification itself, however, is
demonstrably correct. This is the state of mind belonging to those
who teach otherwise. The consequences of their questions and
word-strifes are then stated in the words that follow : tf o)v ylveraij
etc., = from which proceeds envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicion,
lasting contests of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the
truth, who look upon godliness as gain. The identity of the persons
here characterized with those elsewhere referred to in the epistles
is evident from the features in this description, comp. the Gen.
Introd., and on Tit. i. 14. By the (iXaacprmiai are to be understood
not blasphemies against God, but, as the other characteristics show,
mutual slanders ; in like manner the vnovotai nov. are to be taken
in the sense = malevolee de iis qui alias partes sequuntur ....
suspiciones (Leo.) The word occurs only here ;
vnovotcj frequently
in the Acts of the Apostles.
Ver. 5. HapadiarpilSai is the common reading ; the best accred>
ited (comp. Lachmann, Tischendorf ) is dianapaTpij3ai On the signification,
comp. Winer's Gr. § 16, 4, B., p. 92 :
in
the former = useless
disputations, the latter = lasting enmities, contests. That the
latter also corresponds better to the context—inasmuch as vanag
disputationes have already been denoted by Aoyojtt. and it is strife
that is spoken of in the context—has been shown by. Leo in his excellent
investigation of this word, p. 60. Olshausen too is of the
opinion here preferred. The inmost source of these pursuits in the
disposition of those men is then indicated in the words 7nen of corrupt
minds, etc., substantially the same as in ver. 4, he is proud,
etc. The description is the same as elsewhere, comp. on dit^O., Tit.
i. 15 ; on dneaTepTjusvcov, etc., above on i. 19 ; Tit, i. 14. This last
predicate shows plainly that that teaching of other things, against
which Timothy is warned, did not emanate from those who from