1 Timothy 2

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Textual witnesses

• Codex Sinaiticus
• Codex Alexandrinus
• Codex Freerianus
• Codex Claromontanus
• Codex Coislinianus

  Instruction on Prayer (2:1–7)

Verses 3–4

• "Savior" : The second of three times in this letter that God is called "Savior", recalling the 'well-known appellation of Yahweh in the Greek Old Testament'.

  Men and Women at Prayer (2:8–15; 3:1)

Verse 12

• "I do not permit a woman to teach" : John Gill interprets this in the sense of women may teach only in private, that is, in their own houses and families, to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not to forsake the law or doctrine of a mother, any more than the instruction of a father, and they are to be teachers of good things. Timothy surely received a lot of advantage from the private teachings and instructions of his mother Eunice, and grandmother Lois, but then women were not to teach in the church.
• "To have authority over a man" : Gill sees this as not to be done in civil and political things, or in things relating to civil government; and in things domestic, or the affairs of the family, therefore also not in ecclesiastical things, nor what relate to the church, for one part of rule is to feed the church with knowledge and understanding; and for a woman to do this, can be seen as to usurp an authority over the man.
• "To be in silence": according to Gill is "to sit and hear quietly", learning, not teaching, as in.

  Verse 13

• "Was formed" : having the same root as the word used in the LXX in, Ἔπλασεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, "The Lord God formed man...;" and in of the beasts of the field, wherease in man is called τὸ πλάσμα, "the thing made;" and God is ὁ Πλάσας, "he that made it;" the words "plaster", "plastic", or "protoplasm" are also from the same root.