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Missing the Mark of Faith
Commentators unanimously explain that to "swerve" from the faith means to "miss the mark." The false teachers in Ephesus had lost sight of the true target of Christian teaching: love that flows from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith. Instead of aiming for a transformed life, they got lost in secondary issues.
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1 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Timothy 1:6
18th Century
Theologian
From which some having swerved. The marginal reading is not aiming at. The word used here, astocew—properly means to mis…
AT Robertson
On 1 Timothy 1:6
Having swerved (αστοχησαντες). First aorist active participle of αστοχεω, compound
Koine verb (Polybius, Plutarch) f…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Timothy 1:6
19th Century
Bishop
From which some having swerved have turned aside.—This sentence is rendered more accurately: From which some, having gone wide…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Timothy 1:5–7
19th Century
Preacher
There were some who put the law into its wrong place. They made it a way of salvation, which it never was meant to be, and never can be. It is a wa…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Timothy 1:6
Unfortunately, some at Ephesus had “wandered away” (lit., “missed the mark”; GK 1762) from a sincere life of faith and had turned to “meaningless t…
John Calvin
On 1 Timothy 1:6
16th Century
Theologian
Those unprincipled men with whom Timothy had to deal boasted of having the law on their side, which led Paul to anticipate this, showing that the l…
John Gill
On 1 Timothy 1:6
17th Century
Pastor
From which some having swerved The apostle, in this verse and the next, describes the persons he suspected of teaching ot…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Timothy 1:5–11
17th Century
Minister
Whatever tends to weaken love for God, or love for fellow believers, tends to defeat the purpose of the commandment. The purpose of the gospel is f…