Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
the love of money--not the money itself, but the love of it--the wishing to be rich (1 Timothy 6:9) --"is a root (ELLICOTT and MIDDLETON: not as English Version, 'the root') of all evils." (So the Greek plural). The wealthiest may be rich not in a bad sense; the poorest may covet to be so (Psalms 62:10). Love of money is not the sole root of evils, but it is a leading "root of bitterness" (Hebrews 12:15), for "it destroys faith, the root of all that is good" [BENGEL]; its offshoots are "temptation, a snare, lusts, destruction, perdition."
coveted after--lusted after.
erred from--literally, "have been made to err from the faith" (1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Timothy 4:1).
pierced-- (Luke 2:35).
with . . . sorrows--"pains": "thorns" of the parable (Matthew 13:22) which choke the word of "faith." "The prosperity of fools destroys them" (Proverbs 1:32). BENGEL and WIESINGER make them the gnawings of conscience, producing remorse for wealth badly acquired; the harbingers of the future "perdition" (1 Timothy 6:9).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Proverbs 1:17-19
Proverbs 10:22
Proverbs 23:4-5
Ezekiel 33:31
Colossians 3:5
1 Timothy 6:9
1 Timothy 6:11
1 Timothy 6:11
1 Timothy 6:17
2 Timothy 3:2
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