1 TIMOTHY 1:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.”
But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life — Paul becomes a living parable of redemption: his extreme past combined with his present faithfulness demonstrates Christ's patience (makrothumia) and the sufficiency of grace for the worst cases.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 1:16
The favors of God so far exceed human hope and expectation, that often they are not believed. For God has bestowed upon us such things as the mind of man never looked for, never thought of. It is for this reason that the Apostles spend much discourse in securing a belief of the gifts that are granted us of God. For as men, upon receiving some great good, ask themselves if it is not a dream, as not believing it; so it is with respect to the gifts of God. What then was it that…
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