FIRST TIMOTHY. No. 1. 1 TIMOTHY ii. 5. "One Mediator." (ROMAN CATHOLICS.) "This hinders not, but that we may seek the prayers and intercession, as well of the faithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in heaven, for obtaining mercy, grace, and salvation, through Jesus Christ. As St. Paul himself often desired the help of the prayers of the faithful, without any injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ.' Note to the Roman Catholic Version. No. 2. (UNITARIANISM.) "Here is no intimation that Christ was anything more than a man. A Mediator is one who is the medium of Divine communication, as Moses was to the Israelites. It does not at all imply the notion of atonement or propitiation. Belsham. "Had the Apostle thought Christ to be a being of higher nature than that of man, it cannot be sup posed but that, in this place more especially, he would have denominated him by that higher rank, whatever it was; and especially if he had conceived him to be so great a being as the Maker of man and all things." Priestley. No. 1. "Who 1 TIMOTHY ii. 6. gave himself a ransom for all." Preaching at Newgate, Wesley was led insensibly, he says, and without any previous design, to declare strongly and explicitly that God willeth all men to be saved, and to pray if this were not the truth of God, he would not suffer the blind to go out of the way; but if it were, that he would bear witness to his word. "Immediately one, and another, sank to the earth; they dropt on every side as thunderstruck." "In the evening I was again pressed in spirit to declare that Christ gave himself a ransom for all. And almost before we called upon him to set to his seal, he answered. One was so wounded by the sword of the spirit, that you would have imagined she could not live a moment. But immediately his abundant kindness was showed, and she loudly sang of his righteousness." A Quaker who was present at one meeting, and inveighed against what he called dissimulation of these creatures, caught the contagious emotion himself, and even while he was biting his lips and knitting his brows, dropped down as if he had been struck by lightning. "The agony he was in," says Wesley, "was even terrible to behold; we besought God not to lay folly to his charge, and he soon lifted up his head, and cried aloud, 'Now I know thou art a prophet of the Lord.' "Who gave himself a deliverance for all."-Wakefield's Translation. "One great mistake on this subject is, that the Apostle is understood to speak of deliverance from sin and its punishment, when he only means, deliverance from the yoke of Heathenism and the ceremonial law." Belsham. "A ransom, i. e. a means of deliverance from the bondage of the ceremonial law, and of heathen idolatry." Note to the Unitarian Version. 1 TIMOTHY ii. 8. "I will therefore that men pray." The Arians and Socinians confine their worship to God the Father. The Moravians and Swedenborgians address all their prayers to Jesus Christ. Adam's Religious World. 1 TIMOTHY ii. 9. "That women adorn themselves in modest apparel." (QUAKERS.) (See Note on 1 Peter iii. 3.) No. 1. 1 TIMOTHY iii. 2. "The husband of one wife." (NOVATIAN AND NOVATUS.) The followers of Novatian, a Presbyter of the Church of Rome, and of Novatus, a Presbyter of Carthage, condemned second marriages; and for ever excluded from their communion all those who after baptism had fallen into this sin. No. 2. Epiph. Hæres. Theod. Hæret. Fab. 1. iii. c. 5. (RUSSIAN CHURCH.) In Russia the clergy are divided into regular and secular. The former are of the monastic order, the latter are of the parochial clergy; who are not only allowed to marry once, but formerly, a secular Priest could not be ordained without being married; and if his wife died, he was obliged to quit his priesthood, and either retire to a monastery, or submit to take some inferior office in the church; so strictly was he the "husband of one wife." That practice is now changed; but still, the secular clergy are never permitted to marry twice, unless they relinquish their function and become laymen. Adam's Religious World. Mr. Gregory observes of the Greeks, "They approve of the marriage of Priests, provided they enter into that state before their admission into holy orders. 66 They condemn all fourth marriages." Gregory's History of the Christian Church. (See Note on Matt. xix. 11.) 1 TIMOTHY iii. 7. (UNITARIANISM.) "Snare of the accuser.' "—Wakefield, so also Unitarian Version. 1 TIMOTHY iii. 16. (UNITARIANISM.) "And confessedly great is this mystery of Godliness, which was manifested in flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by messengers*, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up with glory."-Wakefield's Translation. "Not Oros, but ó or os, is the reading of the Syriac, Coptic, Æthiopic, and Vulgate versions; otherwise OεOÇ would have stood very well, to the same sense as Matt. i. 23.” "*Messengers-ayyɛλois, viz. Apostles and preachers of the word, so called here, because our author was looking out for expressions to aggrandize the subject. See Acts iv. 20. x. 41.; Gal. iv. 14.; 1 John i. 1.; Rev. i. 20. &c." Wakefield. "He who was manifested in the flesh, was justified by the Spirit, seen by messengers, preached to the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received in glory t."-Unitarian Version. "The primate adopts the received text, God was manifested,' but in the margin he gives the reading retained here, which is also the reading in the text of Griesbach's second edition. This is supported by the Alexandrine and Ephrem. MSS. The Vatican is mutilated. The Clermont reads (8) that which. Later copies have Oɛoç, God. • All the old versions,' says Dr. Clarke, (Doct. of Trin. No. 88, 89,) have who or which. And all the ancient |