Bible Commentaries
Abbott's Illustrated New Testament
1 Timothy 4
Forbidding, &c.; that is, enjoining self-imposed penances and mortifications, as a mode of obtaining the favor of God. There has been, in all ages of the church, a great tendency to this error.
Refuse; reject.--Old wives' fables; nursery tales, which can only please the merest children in religious knowledge.--Rather unto godliness, that is, to moral and spiritual purity, rather than outward sanctity, sought through self-inflicted mortification.
Bodily exercise; the training of the body to privations and hardships, as specified above.--Godliness; holiness of heart.
Let no man despise thy youth; that is, let your life and conversation be such that they will not.
The gift; the ministerial office.--By prophecy; by divine direction.--The presbytery; the eldership, referring to those older than himself in the ministerial work, by whom he was solemnly inducted to the office.
Thy profiting; thy spiritual advancement and welfare.
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