1 TIMOTHY 6:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:”
to keep the commandment unstained and irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ — Timothy's obligation to maintain the entolē (commandment) without spot (aspilo) until the epiphaneia (appearing) of Christ establishes eschatological accountability. Time-bound faithfulness points toward cosmic judgment.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:14
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…
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