Exposition on 1 Timothy 6.1–6.21
Latin text: Souter, TS 9.2 (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 6
6.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:498–499
Quicumque sub iugo semi sunt , dominos suos dignos omni honors arbi trentur. Non solum bonos, sed etiam infideles. Ne nomen domini et doctrina blasphemetur. Ne uideantur per religionem in deterius profecisse.
"Let all who are servants under the yoke count their masters worthy of all honour." Not only the good, but also the unbelieving. "That the name of the Lord and his doctrine be not blasphemed." Lest they seem to have become worse through religion.
1 Tim 6:1 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Slaves must honour even unbelieving masters so the faith is not reviled.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:498–499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499
Qui [autem] Jideles habent dominos, non contemnant quia frcUres sunt . Ne sibi aequalitatem uindicent et contemnant. Sed magis seruiant quia Jideles sunt et dilecti, qui[a ] benejieii partidpes sunt. Si seruiebant infidelibus timore odioso, quanto magis debent seruire fidelibus [in] caritate, quorum participes esse meruerunt ! Haec doce et ex hortare, Doce debere fieri; ex[h]ortare praemium ostendendo.
"And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers." Lest they claim equality for themselves and despise them. "But rather let them serve, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit." If they served unbelievers with hateful fear, how much more ought they to serve the faithful in love, whose partners they have deserved to be! "Teach and exhort these things." Teach that they ought to be done; exhort by showing the reward.
1 Tim 6:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Slaves of believing masters should serve them all the more willingly.
- Souter brackets "but" and "in"; omitted.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499
Si quis aliter docet, et non adquiesdt sanis sermonibus domini nostri Iesu Christi, et ei quae secundum pietatem e[s]t doctrinae, Noui testamenti: ueteris enim erat seuera doctrina.
"If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness." Of the New Testament: for that of the Old was a severe doctrine.
1 Tim 6:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: False teachers reject Christ's sound words, the gentle teaching of the New Testament.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499–500
Superbus [autem], nihil sdens. Super alios se extollens, cum non sit de sursum ueniens quam praedicat sapientia. Sed langue[sce]ns circa quaestiones. Nec enim recusando fidem penitus moritur, nec ad ueritatis scientiam conualescit, sed diuersis accessionibus languet. Et pugnas uerborum. Relicto sensu ueritatis ambiguitates uerborum obseruant, sicut Manichaei, qui ex uerbis diuersitatem testamentorum adsignant. Ex quibus oriuntur inuidiae , contentions, blasphemiae. Quae generant lites [atque] blasphemias in deum pugnando sermonibus. Suspiciones mal[a]e. Siue: Haeresim de alteratro suspicantur. Siue: Audientes putant deficere ueritatem.
"He is proud, knowing nothing." Raising himself above others, though the wisdom he preaches does not come from above. "But languishing about questions." For neither does he die completely by rejecting the faith, nor does he recover to the knowledge of the truth, but languishes with various fits. "And strifes of words." Abandoning the sense of the truth, they watch for ambiguities of words, like the Manichaeans, who assign a difference between the Testaments on the basis of words. "From which arise envy, strife, blasphemies." Which breed quarrels and blasphemies against God by fighting with words. "Evil suspicions." Or: they suspect one another of heresy. Or: the hearers think the truth fails.
1 Tim 6:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Jas 3:15 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: False teachers are proud word-quibblers, like the Manichaeans setting the Testaments against each other.
- Wisdom "from above": Jas 3:15. Souter brackets "but" and "and"; omitted.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:499–500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500
CmjUciaiiones hominum mente corruptorum, [et] qui [a] ueritaXe priuati sunt . [Et] ab integritate euangelii uel naturae. Existimantium quaestum esse culturam dei[ : disced ab huiusmodi ]. Qui putant quaestu[s] sui causa nouum uenisse testamentum.
"Conflicts of men corrupted in mind, who have been deprived of the truth." From the integrity of the gospel or of nature. "Supposing that the worship of God is gain." Who think that the New Testament came for the sake of their gain.
1 Tim 6:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: False teachers, corrupt in mind, treat religion as a means of gain.
- The lemma reads "worship of God" (culturam dei) where the Vulgate has "godliness". Souter brackets "and", "from", "And", and "withdraw from such"; omitted.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500
Est autem quaestus magnus pietas cum sufficientia. Multum adquirit qui habet pietatem cum sufficientia, non luxuriae, sed naturae. [Siue: Sic] pietas est cultura dei, si impietas est contemptus.
"But godliness with sufficiency is great gain." He gains much who has godliness with sufficiency, not of luxury but of nature. Godliness is the worship of God, if ungodliness is contempt of him.
1 Tim 6:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Godliness with a sufficiency set by nature, not luxury, is true gain.
- Souter brackets "Or: thus"; omitted.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500
Nihil [enim] intulimus in hunc mundum: uerum quia nec auferre [quid] possimus . Nudi nati sumus, nudi etiam morituri. quitquit hie inuentum [est], hie relinquitur. non est nostrum quod non semper nostrum est: tamquam peregrini ergo sufficienti usu content!, illas diuitias adquiramus quas nobiscum ad caelestem patriam ferre possimus.
"For we brought nothing into this world; and certainly we cannot carry anything out." We were born naked, and naked we shall die. Whatever is found here is left here. What is not always ours is not ours: so, like pilgrims content with sufficient use, let us acquire those riches which we can carry with us to the heavenly homeland.
1 Tim 6:7 (quotation, high confidence) · Job 1:21 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: We take nothing from this world, so we should seek riches that last into heaven.
- "Naked": Job 1:21. Souter brackets "for", "anything", and "is"; omitted.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500
Habentes [autem] alimenta [et] quibus tegamur , his contenti simus . Quod superius dixerat ‘sufficientiam’: quitquit [enim] his amplius est, diuitiis deputatur.
"Having food and covering, let us be content with these." What he had called "sufficiency" above: whatever is more than these is counted as riches.
1 Tim 6:8 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Food and clothing suffice; anything more is wealth.
- Souter brackets "but", "and", and "for"; omitted.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500–501
Nam qui uolunt diuites fieri . Uoluntatem diuitiarum auaritiam definiuit, quae uoluntas et habentis est et quaerentis. Inddunt in temptationem et laqueum diaboli . Occaaio ergo temptationis est et laquei diaboli uelle habere diuitias. Et desideria muUa . Numquam ergo diuitiarum desideria s[a]tiantur. Inutilia et nociua. Non solum inutilia, sed [et] nociua. Quae [de]mergunt hominem in interitum et perditionem . Dum ambitione honorum tumentes, usque in caelos eleuati, usque ad inferos demerguntur. Siue : Desiderantes alienas opes, ut A[c]hab, usque ad homicidii perueniunt factiones.
"For those who want to be rich." He has defined the will to have riches as avarice, a will that belongs both to the one who has and to the one who seeks. "Fall into temptation and the snare of the devil." The occasion of temptation and of the devil's snare, then, is wanting to have riches. "And many desires." Desires for riches are never satisfied. "Useless and harmful." Not only useless, but harmful. "Which plunge a man into destruction and perdition." While, swollen with ambition for honours, lifted up to the heavens, they are plunged down to hell. Or: desiring others' wealth, like Ahab, they even come to the crime of murder.
1 Tim 6:9 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 21:19 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 11:23 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The desire to be rich is avarice, a snare leading to ruin, as with Ahab.
- Ahab: 1 Kgs 21 (3 Kgdms 20 LXX). "Lifted up to heaven ... to hell": Matt 11:23.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:500–501; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:501–502
Radix enim omnium [ malorum ] est cupiditas . Quia aut fons est omnium criminum aut augmentum. radix [autem] excisos semper denshis reparat ramos: euellenda est ergo radix, ne rami superflue excidantur. Quam quidam adpetentes errauerunt a fide. Hoc est, recesserunt a fide promissorum dei, dum praesentibus oble[c]tantur. Et inseruerunt se doloribus muUis. Quanto amplius habuerint, tanto plures sollicitudinum sustinent cruciatus: unde et dominus 6 diuitiarum aerumnis et circa reliqua concupiscentiae uerbum 9 adseruit ‘sufiocari/
"For covetousness is the root of all evils." Because it is either the source of all crimes or their increase. A root always restores the branches that are cut off thicker: so the root must be torn out, lest the branches be cut in vain. "Which some, seeking after, have erred from the faith." That is, they have departed from faith in God's promises, while they are delighted by present things. "And pierced themselves with many sorrows." The more they have, the more torments of anxiety they bear: hence the Lord too declared that the word is "choked" by "the cares of riches" and of other desire.
1 Tim 6:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Mark 4:19 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Greed, the root of evil, must be uprooted; it draws people from faith into anxiety.
- The Lord's saying: Mark 4:19; Luke 8:14. Souter brackets "of evils" and "but"; the lemma is translated with "evils" as the sense requires.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:501–502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502
Tu autem , o homo dei. Non diuitiarum homo, sed dei, nec mam[m]onae seruus, sed Christi, cuius sunt omnia etiam quae uidentur. Haec fuge Quasi causas perfidiae uel dolorum. Sedate uero iustitiam, jyietatem , fidem. In his te cupio esse diuitiis locupletem. Caritatem Dei et proximi. Patientiam, mansuetud/inem. Patientiam sustinendi; mansuetudinem non nocendi.
"But you, O man of God." Not a man of riches but of God, not a servant of mammon but of Christ, to whom belong all things, even those that are seen. "Flee these things." As causes of faithlessness or sorrows. "But follow righteousness, godliness, faith." In these riches I want you to be wealthy. "Love." Of God and of neighbour. "Patience, meekness." Patience in bearing; meekness in not harming.
1 Tim 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 6:24 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The man of God flees greed and pursues the riches of virtue.
- Mammon: Matt 6:24.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Tu autem , o hofno dei → Tu autem , o homo dei.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502
Certa[re] cer tamen bonum fidei. Bonum certamen est, non pro rebus saeculi, sed usque ad mortem pro fidei ueritate certare, sicut scriptum est: ‘in iustitia agonizare pro anima tua, et usque ad mortem certa pro iustitia/ Siue : Ut illi student in diuitiis omnes uincere, [ita] tu in fide. Adprekende. ‘Si quo modo conprehendam in quo et conprehensus sum/ Uitam aetemam in qua uocatus es. Ut illi tenere cupiunt temporalem. Et confessus es bonam confessionem. In'baptismo renuntiando saeculo et pompis eius/ Coram multis testibus . Coram sacerdotibus uel ministris uirtutibusque caelestibus.
"Fight the good fight of faith." The good fight is to contend not for the things of the world but for the truth of the faith even to death, as it is written: "Strive for your soul in righteousness, and fight for righteousness even to death." Or: as they strive to surpass all in riches, so you in faith. "Lay hold." "If by any means I may lay hold of that for which I was also laid hold of." "Of eternal life, to which you were called." As they desire to hold temporal life. "And you have confessed the good confession." In baptism, by renouncing the world and its pomps. "Before many witnesses." Before priests or ministers and the heavenly powers.
1 Tim 6:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 3:12 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Timothy must contend for the faith to death, holding the life he confessed at baptism.
- Quotations: Sir 4:28 (4:33 Vulgate); Phil 3:12. The renunciation of "the world and its pomps" is the baptismal formula. Souter brackets "so"; omitted.
Extrabiblical texts: Sir 4:28 (Sirach [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502–503
Praedpio tibi coram deo . Praecipit auctoritate[m] maestri. Qui uiuificat omnia . Omnia quae uiuunt, [et] etiam arefacta, per eius potentiam reuiuescunt. Et Christo lesu , qui testimonium reddidit sub Pontio PUato, bonam confessionem. Dicens ad Filatum : ‘ Ego ad hoc ueni in hunc mundum, [ut testimonium perhibeam ueritati,] ’ scilicet pro ea etiam moriendo.
"I command you before God." He commands with a master's authority. "Who gives life to all things." All things that live, and even things that have withered, revive through his power. "And Christ Jesus, who testified under Pontius Pilate the good confession." Saying to Pilate: "For this I came into this world," namely by dying for it too.
1 Tim 6:13 (quotation, high confidence) · John 18:37 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul charges Timothy before God the life-giver and Christ, who confessed before Pilate.
- The quotation is John 18:37. Souter brackets "and" and "to bear witness to the truth"; omitted.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:502–503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:503
Ut semes mandatum . Sicut ille, usque ad mortem Sine macula inreprehensibUe. Maculatfus] quodam modo et reprehendi iacit mandata qui peccat. Usque in aduentum domini nostri lesu Christi . ‘Qui perseuerauerit usque in finem, hie saluus erit.’ Quem suis temporibus ostendet beatus et solus potens [et] rex regum et dominus dominemtium. Quando uoluerit qui hoc solus potest facere deus. Qui solus habet immortalitatem. Hie solus proprie habet qui angelis et hominibus dedit habere: nos autem nec soli nec a nobis habemus ut ille. hoc contra Manichaeos, qui mali natura[m] adfirmant immortalem atque perpetuam. Et lucem [in]habitat inaccessibilem. Omni creaturae: ‘nemo9 enim ‘nouit patrem nisi filius, neque filinm nisi pater’ : et 4 spiritus’ sanctus utrumque, qui ‘ Bcrutatur etiam profunda dei.’ Quemuidit hominum nemo, sed nec uidere potest [ ; cui sit honor et potestas : gloria in saecula saeculorum]. Nemo uidit sicut est, sed unus quisque pro merito: nam et solem tanto amplius uident singuli, quanto purior fuerit acies oculorum.
"That you keep the commandment." Like him, even to death. "Without spot, blameless." One who sins in a way stains the commands and makes them blamed. "Until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." "He who perseveres to the end will be saved." "Which in his own times he will show, the blessed and only Mighty One, King of kings and Lord of lords." When he wills, God, who alone can do this. "Who alone has immortality." He alone has it properly, who has given angels and men to have it: but we have it neither alone nor from ourselves, as he does. This is against the Manichaeans, who assert that the nature of evil is immortal and everlasting. "And dwells in light unapproachable." To every creature: for "no one knows the Father except the Son, nor the Son except the Father," and the Holy Spirit knows both, who "searches even the deep things of God." "Whom no man has seen, nor can see." No one has seen him as he is, but each according to his merit: for individuals see the sun the more, the purer the keenness of their eyes.
1 Tim 6:14 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 6:15 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 6:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 10:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 11:27 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 2:10 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Timothy must keep the command until Christ's coming; God alone has immortality, against the Manichaeans, and is seen by each according to his purity.
- The section includes the lemmas of 6:15–16. Quotations: Matt 10:22; Matt 11:27; 1 Cor 2:10. Souter brackets "and" and "to whom be honour and power: glory for ever and ever"; omitted.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray number and OCR slip; stray verse number and OCR slip): IS Quern suis temporibus → Quem suis temporibus; 10 Qui solus habet immortali totem → Qui solus habet immortalitatem.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:503; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
6.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:503–504
Diuitibus huius saeculi praecipe. Sunt enim et alterius saeculi dilutes, qui ‘emunt sibi ‘aurum ignitum a deo, et qui ‘ habent thesaurum in caelo,’ nec non et qui proferunt noua et uetera.’ Non superbe sapere . In primis principalem eorum tetigit morbum: difficiUime enim inuenies diuitem non superbum, qui pauperes uel parentes agnoscat, et qui non grauiter ferat minime sibi ab inferiore, ut putat ipse, delatum. Neque sperare. Non sperando uilescunt, [et] cum uiluerint, erogantur. In incerto diuitiarum. De quibus incertus es utrum ill[a]e tibi an tu illis celerius subtraharis; multis enim cum uita sublatae sunt; alii propriis eas alienari oculi[s] peruiderunt; non nulli etiam inuiti extraneis reliquerunt. Sed in domino [uiuo\ Cuius sunt omnia. Qui praestat nobis omnia abunde . Qui ideo abunde praestat, ut utamur, etiam aliis largientes, non ut grandi labore ‘destruentes, horrea maiora faciamus.’ Ad fruendum ,
"Command the rich of this age." For there are also the rich of another age, who "buy for themselves gold refined by fire" from God, and who "have treasure in heaven," and also those "who bring forth things new and old." "Not to be high-minded." First of all he touched their chief disease: for you will find it very hard to find a rich man who is not proud, who acknowledges the poor or his relatives, and who does not take it ill when something is offered to him, as he thinks, too little by an inferior. "Nor to hope." By not being hoped in, riches grow cheap; and when they have grown cheap, they are given away. "In the uncertainty of riches." Of which you are uncertain whether they will be taken from you or you from them sooner; for many lost them with their life; others saw them alienated before their own eyes; some even left them unwillingly to strangers. "But in the Lord." To whom all things belong. "Who gives us all things richly." Who gives richly for this reason, that we may use them, sharing with others too, not that with great labour "pulling down, we may build bigger barns." "To enjoy,"
1 Tim 6:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 3:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 19:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 13:52 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 12:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The rich must not be proud or trust uncertain wealth, but hope in God, who gives to be shared.
- Quotations: Rev 3:18; Matt 19:21; Matt 13:52; Luke 12:18. Souter brackets "living" and "and"; omitted.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (hyphenation; stray line number; stray line numbers): Diuitibus huius saeculi prae- cipe → Diuitibus huius saeculi praecipe; ‘emunt1 3 5 sibi → ‘emunt sibi; 6 8 10 qui proferunt → qui proferunt; i5grandi labore → grandi labore.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:503–504; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
6.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:504–505
in uoluntate operum bonorum . Non ad occultandum uel negotiandum. Diuites fieri in operibus bonis. Non in auro argentoque. Facile tribuere , communicatores esse. Qui facile tribuit, cito diues esse cessabit. tribuere donare est, communicare uero mutuum dare.
"in the will to good works." Not for hiding or trading. "To be rich in good works." Not in gold and silver. "To give easily, to share." He who gives easily will soon cease to be rich. To give is to bestow; to share is to lend.
1 Tim 6:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The rich should be rich in good works and generous.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:504–505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
6.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:505
Thesaurizare sibi fundamentum bonum infuturum. ‘ Uade, uende omnia quae possides, et da pauperibus, et habebis thesaurum in caelo, et ueni, sequere me’: quod perfectionis est fundamentum. Ut adpr[a]ehenda[n]t ueram uitam. Haec enim non est uera uita quae in suo non permanet statu: ‘uanitas’ enim ‘sub sole/ dixit Ecclesiastes. O Timothee , depositum custodi. Commendatum a nobis serua mandatum. Siue: Fidei custodi depositum. Deuitans profana uaniloquia. Quod a me non audisti, nec ab angelo si dicatur, libenter admittas. Et oppositions fallads scientiae,
"To lay up for themselves a good foundation for the future." "Go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me": which is the foundation of perfection. "That they may lay hold on the true life." For this is not true life which does not remain in its own state: for "vanity under the sun," said Ecclesiastes. "O Timothy, guard the deposit." Keep the command entrusted by us. Or: guard the deposit of faith. "Avoiding profane vain talk." What you have not heard from me, do not readily admit, even if an angel should say it. "And the oppositions of knowledge falsely so called,"
1 Tim 6:19 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 6:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 19:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Eccl 1:14 (quotation, medium confidence) · Gal 1:8 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Giving all to the poor is the foundation of perfection; Timothy must guard the faith he received.
- The section includes the lemma of 6:20. Quotations: Matt 19:21; Eccl 1:14; "even if an angel": Gal 1:8.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray verse number and OCR slip): 20 0 Timothee → O Timothee.
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
6.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:505
quam quidam promittentes circa fidem exciderunt. Artis dialecticae, per quam sibi infinitam rerum scientiam haeretici promittunt, qui, sicut Euae serpens, maiorem scientiam promitten[te]s, a fidei ueritate ceciderunt. Gratia tecum . Permaneat in aetemum. [Amm.]
"which some professing have fallen away concerning the faith." The knowledge of the art of dialectic, by which heretics promise themselves infinite knowledge of things, who, like the serpent to Eve, promising greater knowledge, have fallen from the truth of the faith. "Grace be with you." May it remain for ever.
1 Tim 6:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:5 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Heretics, like the serpent, promise knowledge through dialectic and fall from the faith.
- The serpent: Gen 3:5. Souter brackets "Amen"; omitted.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Tim. 6.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:505; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-timotheum/6-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from Souter's Latin text (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.