Looking to purchase some commentaries on 1st Timothy.

Any ideas? To buy and to stay away from?

Thanks!

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

George Knight is very good from the point of view of the Greek text; (see here for a google-view) I also appreciate Fairbairn's Pastoral Epistles in the Geneva set.

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Todd K. Pedlar
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Phil Ryken has a commentary on it that is part of the "Reformed Expository Commentary" series. CVBBS has the best price ($20.99)

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Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira
Member
Presbyterian Church in Aluminio
Mairinque, São Paulo, Brazil

George Knight's is by far the best I have read and used extensively. He taught a course on each of the Pastorals in successive years at GPTS and I was very privileged to have him teach me 2 Timothy. It was one of my favourite courses at seminary.

Mounce and Guthrie are also helpful (Guthrie is small and good), but, if you were going to buy one book, I would suggest you go with Knight.

In Knight's course he evaluated all of the commentaries on the Pastorals. He listed the following as good choices (obviously some are more pastoral vs. technical):
Mounce, Guthrie, Stott, Hendriksen, Fee and Barcley (despite Barcley's issues). On the other side of the fence, Marshall was a critical volume that he often critiqued in class.

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~Pastor Chris Powell~
Covenant Baptist Church, Toronto
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Knight gives me a headache. I don't know if it is the dense print that was used, or the fact that most of his commentary seems like one big word study, but I prefer Mounce in the WBC series. Mounce actually does a better job in tackling egalitarianism, which is admirable seeing as he is writing from within that context.

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Adam J. Myer
Slated for the Jan. 10th Chaplains Basic Officer Leadership Course
Estacada Christian Church
Sandy, Oregon

Soli Deo Gloria

I recommend Knight, Mounce, Towner (though he is liberal on women's issues), Ryken (mostly good on chapter 2, though not above criticism: see my article in CPJ), and Barcley. for some decent exegesis from a liberal perspective, you could go with the ECC volume by Quinn and Wacker, as well as Johnson in the AB.

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Rev. Lane Keister
Teaching Elder, PCA, North Dakota (working out of bounds in a CRC and an RCA church)
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Knight and Fairbairn for exegesis; Hendriksen and Calvin for exposition; and Calvin's Sermons for application.

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Yours sincerely,


"Illum oportet crescere me autem minui."

Again, sorry that I seem to beat the same drum so often, but I tend to like Luther's way of filtering scripture through the sieve of the Gospel. And so, I recommend his Volume #28, which deals with I Timothy from pp. 215-384.

Blessings!

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Charles Plauger
Member/Grace Reformed Church
Oakland, MD

Thanks all. What are y'alls opinion on the John Stott commentary? How about the Kent Hughes book?

1&2 Timothy (Evangelical Press, An EP Study Commentary) by William Barkley (GOOD not bad) is good for helping with application.

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Rev. Andrew J. Barnes
Husband of Dena
Father of Oliver
Master of Bruce
Pastor of Tchula Presbyterian Church

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