1 TIMOTHY 6:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;”
I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession — Paul's charge (paraggellō) invokes dual divine witness: God (zōopoieō, life-giver) and Christ (witnessing truthfully before Pilate). Christ's fidelity under interrogation becomes Timothy's paradigm.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:13
Again he calls God to witness, as he had done a little before, at once to increase his disciple's awe, and to secure his safety, and to show that these were not human commandments, that receiving the commandment as from the Lord Himself, and ever bearing in mind the Witness before Whom he heard it, he may have it more fearfully impressed upon his mind. “I charge you,” he says, “before God, Who quickens all things.” Here is at once consolation in the dangers which awaited…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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