1 Timothy 3
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Fragments showing First Epistle to Timothy 3:15-16 on Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (Scrivener Facsimile), from ca. AD 450.
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| Book | First Epistle to Timothy |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 15 |
| Category | Pauline epistles |
1 Timothy 3 is the third chapter of the First Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored in the name of Paul the Apostle.
There has been some claims that the Dead Sea Scrolls contain fragments of Timothy and other Christian Greek scriptures, but this is rejected by the majority of scholars.
This chapter can be grouped (with cross references to other parts of the Bible):
What follows is so, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, his birth of a virgin, the union of the two natures, divine and human, in his person; this is a mystery, which though revealed, and so to be believed, is not to be discerned nor accounted for, nor the modus of it to be comprehended by reason: and it is a great one, next, if not equal, to the doctrine of a trinity of persons in the divine essence; and is a mystery of godliness, which tends to encourage internal and external religion, powerful and practical godliness in all the parts and branches of it; and is so beyond all dispute and doubt.
not God essentially considered, or Deity in the abstract, but personally; and not the first nor the third Person; for of neither of them can this or the following things be said; but the second Person, the Word, or Son of God; see ( 1 John 3:8 ) who existed as a divine Person, and as a distinct one from the Father and Spirit, before his incarnation; and which is a proof of his true and proper deity: the Son of God in his divine nature is equally invisible as the Father, but became manifest by the assumption of human nature in a corporeal way, so as to be seen, heard, and felt: and by "flesh" is meant, not that part of the body only, which bears that name, nor the whole body only, but the whole human nature, consisting of a true body and a reasonable soul; so called, partly to denote the frailty of it, and to show that it was not a person, but a nature, Christ assumed; and the clause is added, not so much to distinguish this manifestation of Christ from a spiritual manifestation of him to his people, as in distinction from all other manifestations of him in the Old Testament, in a human form for a time, and in the cloud, both in the tabernacle and temple. This clause is a very apt and full interpretation of the word "Moriah", the name of the mount in which Jehovah would manifest himself, and be seen, (Genesis 22:2; Genesis 22:14).
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