1 Timothy 2:1-6

1 Timothy 2:1-6 vs. 1-3. A. Paul here recommends heavenward pleas for all men, particularly for civil authorities. 1. He opens this section with a conjunctive adverbial phrase, “I exhort therefore...,” after having written about two disciplined brethren. 1TI 1:19-20. 2. There is a connection between rebuked brethren and civil oppression. JOH 13:21, 25-27; ACT 17:5-8. 3. It is conceivable that Hymenaeus’ and Alexander’s “blasphemy” consisted of a distorted rejection of authority (c/w 1TI 6:1), against...