Annotations upon all the New Testament philologicall and theologicall wherein the emphasis and elegancie of the Greeke is observed, some imperfections in our translation are discovered, divers Jewish rites and customes tending to illustrate the text are mentioned, many antilogies and seeming contradictions reconciled, severall darke and obscure places opened, sundry passages vindicated from the false glosses of papists and hereticks / by Edward Leigh ...

CHAP. I.

THere is the same Argument generally of this Epistle with the former.* 1.1

Vers. 3. Whom I serve from my forefathers] or Progenitors: so Calvin. Some say Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob;* 1.2 others his naturall parents.

With pure conscience] That is, a conscience purified from the guilt of sinne by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ. 2. A conscience purified from self-ends and re∣spects. Sincerely and without hypocrisie.

Without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day] We cannot think that Timothy was never out of his thought; but the meani••g is, when he did call upon God from day to day, he still remembred him. 1 Thess. 5.17.

Vers. 6. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee] That is, as man preserves the fire by blowing,* 1.3 so by our diligence we must kindle and revive the gifts and graces of God bestowed on us. Therefore some thinke it is a metaphor taken from a sparke kept in ashes, which by gentle blowing is stirred up till it take a flame; so Calvin, Barlow, and others. But it is better (saith Gerhard) to refer it to the Type of the Priests of the old Testament, by whose daily and continuall ministery the fire com¦ming from Heaven was maintained: so Timothy is commanded to stir up and pre¦serve the gifts of the Holy Ghost received, and cause them to flame and burn in him. 1 Thess. 5.19. 1 Tim 4.14. Not those gifts common to all the faithfull, faith, hope, and charity, but the particular gifts of the Spirit, as the gift of teaching in the Schools, the gift of exhorting in the Church, and perswading men the faith of Christ; the gift of Tongues. In calling it a gift he signifies an extraordinary grace of that time; but in willing him to stir it up, and not to neglect it,* 1.4 he sheweth that it was in him to procure it at Gods hands, by reading teaching, and praying, and the like means.

By putting on of my hands] The ceremony of laying on of hands hath been used of parents in blessing of their children Gen. 48.14. in Sacrifice Levit. 1.4. in healing of diseases, Acts 28.8. in conferring the excellent gift of the holy Ghost,* 1.5 Acts 8.17. and in making of Ministers; to which time these words have reference, 1 Tim. 4.14.

Vers. 9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling] In calling he is

said to save us, to set us after a sort in possession of salvation, when he cals us voca∣tione sancta, id est sanctificante, making us holy

* 1.6Not according to our works] That is, not for the fore-knowledge of mans faith or works; marke the exclusive, when, before the world was; therefore this grace whereby we are saved, cannot be any gift of grace infused into us, unlesse it could be infused before the world was, or we were in it.

Vers. 12. Neverthelesse I am not ashamed] There is confidence; I know and am per∣swaded] there is faith; That he is able to keep] there is a sure preserver; That which I have committed] there is the pledge of salvation.

* 1.7Th•• Apostle saith he committed to Gods custody a pawn or pledge, or that which he intrusted him withall; and what that is Interpreters differ. One faith his soule, another (which is all one) himselfe; his works, saith a third; a fourth addeth his sufferings; a fifth his salvation. He committed to God his soule, himselfe, his doings, his sufferings, to be rewarded with life and salvation.

* 1.8Vers. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words] Or, wholsome words, such as have a healing property in them, as the word signifies. Principles of Religion grounded on Gods Word are called sound, wholsome, or healthfull words, both in regard of their matter and substance, and also in regard of their effect, they cause and preserve good, sound and spirituall health. Form] or pattern. A metaphor, say some, from a Car∣penter that worketh by rule. Hhora * 1.9 foramina, a speech borrowed from Mer∣chants who have severall boxes or holes wherein the put their severall sorts of money.

In faith and love which are in Christ Iesus] That is, sound doctrine is contained in those two heads, faith and love, both which have reference to Christ. Neither Prote∣stant nor Papist * 1.10, Calvinist nor Lutherane, Conformist nor Unconformist, but faith and love in Christ Jesus is all in all.

* 1.11Vers. 16. For he oft refreshed me] This is another word in Greek then is used Phi∣lem••n 7. A metaphor taken from those who being almost overcome with heate, finde some cooling; to shew how acceptable and comfortable Onesiphorus his reliefe was unto him.

Vers. 17. But when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me] Therefore Paul was a prisoner at large. Found m••] That is, came where I was. The difference between Invenire and Reperire is this; when we goe on a thing, it is invenire; when a thing comes on us we doe reperire.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Exordium po∣steriosis Epistolae ad Timothum rectè dixeris Exordium Epistolae ad Romanos contractum. Scultetus.
• * 1.2

  Latini certè progentorum nomine, ut Graeci 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vocabulo, complectuntur non parentes modò proximos, sed superiores quoque, qui nominibus carentes, eisdent majores vocantur. Espencaeus. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 aliqui majores, nempe Abrahamum, Isaacum & Jacobum, & alios deinceps à quibus ortus est intelligunt; ego progenitores proximos significari puto. Scultetus. Gratias ago Deo meo, quòd quoties ad eum preces fundo, toties tui sum memor, ac pro te oro. Estius.
• * 1.3

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 qui sopitos su∣scitat ignes; Est hoc verbum Genes. 45.27. suscitatur autem spiritus ille pre∣cibus dil••genti meditatione & jugi pia opera∣tione. Grot. Scultetus in loc.
• * 1.4

  Thorndikes Ser∣vice of God at religious As∣semblies. c. 5.
• * 1.5

  Ordinatio voca∣tur manuū im∣positio, quia fit cum ceremonia impossionis ma∣nuum. Estius.
• * 1.6

  According to his purpose and grace] That is, not moved by our workes, but by his purpose and grace, that is fore-purpose.
• * 1.7

  Here the Apo∣stle cals his own soule 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, be∣cause commit∣ted to God to keep to glory; in the 14 Verse the Gospell is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 because committed to us, to our keeping.
• * 1.8

  Ea doctrina quae nihil in∣salubre habet admixtum qua∣lia multa erant in doctrina Rabunorum & Philosophorum. Grotius.
• * 1.9

  Weemes out of Iunius. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quidam vortunt expressam formam, quidam imaginem & delineationem, quidam informatio∣nem. Gerh.
• * 1.10

  Mr. Ward. See Gal 5.6. Ephes. 6.23. 1 Tim. 1.14. These two were figured by the Vrim and Thummim.
• * 1.11

  Dike. Translatio sum∣pta ab umbra aut ventulo in l••cis aest••osis. Grotius.