1 TIMOTHY 6:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;”
which he will display at the proper time — the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords — the temporal reference (kairos) to Christ's manifestation returns focus to God's sovereignity: monos dynastēs (sole sovereign), basileus basileōn (king of kings), kyrios kyriōn (lord of lords). Ultimate authority rests with God alone.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:15
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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