1 Timóteo 6

1 Timóteo 6:13-14

Clarke says it this way "God, Who is the fountain of life, and who is the resurrection; and who will raise thee up at the last day to a life of ineffable glory, if thou be faithful unto death. And should thy life fall a sacrifice to the performance of thy duty, all will be safe; for thy life is hid with Christ in God, and when he who is thy life shall appear, then shalt thou also appear with him in glory! White agrees writing that zoogoneo has "has the sense preserve alive… A good example from OT (Septuagint - Lxx) is 1Sa 2:6, "The Lord kills and makes alive (zoogoneo)". The word has here a special appropriateness. Timothy is stimulated to exhibit moral courage by an assurance that he is in the hands of One whose protective power is universal, and by the example of One who, as Man, put that protective power to a successful test, and was “saved out of death” (Heb. 5:7-note). Jamieson agrees writing that Paul "He urges Timothy to faithfulness here by the present manifestation of God’s power in preserving all things John