1 TIMOTHY 5:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.”
So also good deeds are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden — the parallel: virtue's manifestations sometimes appear immediately (ophanē), while others remain obscure until final judgment. All deeds ultimately stand revealed before God.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:25
In speaking of ordination, he had said, “Be not partaker of other men's sins.” But what, he might say, if I be ignorant of them? Why, “some men's sins are open beforehand, going before them to judgment, and some they follow after.” Some men's, he means, are manifest, because they, go before, while others' are unknown, because they follow after.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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