Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
But--in contrast to the doctrine of the false teachers.
the end--the aim.
the commandment--Greek, "of the charge" which you ought to urge on your flock. Referring to the same Greek word as in 1 Timothy 1:3, 1 Timothy 1:18; here, however, in a larger sense, as including the Gospel "dispensation of God" (see on 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 1:11), which was the sum and substance of the "charge" committed to Timothy wherewith he should "charge" his flock.
charity--LOVE; the sum and end of the law and of the Gospel alike, and that wherein the Gospel is the fulfilment of the spirit of the law in its every essential jot and tittle (Romans 13:10). The foundation is faith (1 Timothy 1:4), the "end" is love (1 Timothy 1:14; Titus 3:15).
out of--springing as from a fountain.
pure heart--a heart purified by faith (Acts 15:9; 2 Timothy 2:22; Titus 1:15).
good conscience--a conscience cleared from guilt by the effect of sound faith in Christ (1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3; 1 Peter 3:21). Contrast 1 Timothy 4:2; Titus 1:15; compare Acts 23:1. John uses "heart," where Paul would use "conscience." In Paul the understanding is the seat of conscience; the heart is the seat of love [BENGEL]. A good conscience is joined with sound faith; a bad conscience with unsoundness in the faith (compare Hebrews 9:14).
faith unfeigned--not a hypocritical, dead, and unfruitful faith, but faith working by love (Galatians 5:6). The false teachers drew men off from such a loving, working, real faith, to profitless, speculative "questions" (1 Timothy 1:4) and jangling (1 Timothy 1:6).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ephesians 6:14
Colossians 3:14
1 Thessalonians 4:2
1 Timothy 1:4
1 Timothy 1:13
1 Timothy 1:19
1 Timothy 2:15
1 Timothy 3:9
1 Timothy 4:2
1 Timothy 4:7
1 Timothy 6:14
2 Timothy 2:22
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