1 Timóteo 1

1 Timóteo 1

Robertson explained that “Threatening and slaughter had come to be the very breath that Saul breathed, like a warhorse who sniffed the smell of battle.” Yarbrough on persecutor - The resurrected Jesus accused Paul of persecuting him (Acts 9:5), and Paul recounts the stinging accusation and its basis repeatedly thereafter (Acts 22:4, 7–8; 26:11, 14–15; cf. 1 Cor 15:9; Gal 1:13, 23; Phil 3:6). His blasphemous character was matched by an activist commitment to bring physical force to bear against what he perceived as violation of God’s commands and will....Paul could have said more, but he has written enough to confirm how thoroughly unworthy he was of anything but the law’s penalty, since he had broken it so flagrantly precisely in his religious zealotry. He exceeded the false teachers who were twisting the law at Ephesus in his violation of it. But something happened to him, which he now moves to underscore to Timothy. He is not a better man than the false teachers (nor is Timothy). But they have met the one who delivers from the potentially destructive effects of humans enforcing religious tradition and morality by their own best lights. (The Letters to Timothy and Titus)