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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 2
Saints should live righteously, deny ungodliness, and seek the Lord.
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1 BUT
aspeak thou the things which become sound
bdoctrine:
2 That the aaged men be
bsober, grave, ctemperate, sound in
faith, in charity, in patience.
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3 The aged women likewise, that they be
in behaviour as becometh holiness, not afalse
baccusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good
things;
4 That they may teach the young
awomen to be sober, to blove their
husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet,
achaste, bkeepers at
chome, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word
of God be not blasphemed.
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6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of
good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness,
agravity, bsincerity,
8 aSound speech, that cannot
be bcondemned; that he that is cof the
contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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9 Exhort aservants to
be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in
all things; not banswering again;
10 Not apurloining, but
shewing all good fidelity; that they may badorn the
doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
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11 For the agrace of God
bthat bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying
aungodliness and bworldly
clusts, we should live dsoberly,
erighteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the
aglorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour
Jesus Christa;
14 Who gave ahimself for
us, that he might bredeem us from all iniquity, and
cpurify unto himself a dpeculiar people,
ezealous of good works.
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13a appearing of the great God and our
Savior Jesus Christ All in the manner in which a thing is stated
sometimes leaves one to ponder just what was said. Does this speak of Jesus
Christ to be 'the great God'? If so well, for Jesus Christ in his own right
is 'the great God' of the Old Testament, even Jehovah. And yet we know and
also understand that 'our Lord' has 'his LORD' and our Father of Spirits,
who is also and may be termed as 'the Great God'. So does this speak of the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ solely or does it further speak of when Christ
comes and the Father of Spirits also appears at that final and great day of
judgment and acceptance, wherein both are to be present? And perhaps both
perspectives my be correct within their own contexts when one understands the
fulness of such matters. But to the non-understanding without the spirit to
quide their understanding, they may so argue this to be a matter that the
'Son' and the 'Father' are one and the same, thus confusing the points here
and so adopt an uninspired reading which does seem to them to support such a
false doctrine as the 'Holy Trinity' so given by the appostate church so
organized after the inovations of men's own self perceived notions and
uninspired minds.
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15 These things speak, and exhort, and
arebuke with all bauthority. Let no man
cdespise thee.
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