1 TIMOTHY 6:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.”
who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. — God's unique attributes (athanasia/immortality, phōs aprositon/unapproachable light) and invisibility establish divine transcendence. The doxology (timē, kratos) and amen close the epistle with cosmic affirmation.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 6:16
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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