Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Timothy 6:6
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6. But —Though they err in this, there is a sense in which "piety is" not merely gain, but " great means of gain": not the gaining which they pursue, and which makes men to be discontented with their present possessions, and to use religion as "a cloak of covetousness" ( 1 Thessalonians 2:5 ) and means of earthly gain, but the present and eternal gain which piety, whose accompaniment is contentment, secures to the soul. WIESINGER remarks that Paul observed in Timothy a tendency to indolence and shrinking from the conflict, whence he felt ( 1 Thessalonians 2:5- : ) that Timothy needed cautioning against such temptation; compare also the second Epistle. Not merely contentment is great gain (a sentiment of the heathen CICERO [ Paradox 6], "the greatest and surest riches"), but "piety with contentment"; for piety not only feels no need of what it has not, but also has that which exalts it above what it has not [WIESINGER]. The Greek for contentment is translated "sufficiency" ( 2 Corinthians 9:8 ). But the adjective ( Philippians 4:11 ) "content"; literally, "having a sufficiency in one's self " independent of others. "The Lord always supplies His people with what is necessary for them. True happiness lies in piety, but this sufficiency [supplied by God, with which moreover His people are content ] is thrown into the scale as a kind of overweight" [CALVIN] ( 1 Kings 17:1-16 ; Psalms 37:19 ; Isaiah 33:6 ; Isaiah 33:16 ; Jeremiah 37:21 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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