KJV: Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
YLT: Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;
Darby: Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.
ASV: Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
Τοὺς | Those |
Parse: Article, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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(δὲ) | however |
Parse: Conjunction Root: δέ Sense: but, moreover, and, etc. |
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ἁμαρτάνοντας | sinning |
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Active, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ἁμαρτάνω Sense: to be without a share in. |
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ἐνώπιον | before |
Parse: Preposition Root: ἐνώπιον Sense: in the presence of, before. |
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ἔλεγχε | rebuke |
Parse: Verb, Present Imperative Active, 2nd Person Singular Root: ἐλέγχω Sense: to convict, refute, confute. |
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ἵνα | so that |
Parse: Conjunction Root: ἵνα Sense: that, in order that, so that. |
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καὶ | also |
Parse: Conjunction Root: καί Sense: and, also, even, indeed, but. |
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λοιποὶ | rest |
Parse: Adjective, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: λοιπός Sense: remaining, the rest. |
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φόβον | fear |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular Root: φόβος Sense: fear, dread, terror. |
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ἔχωσιν | might have |
Parse: Verb, Present Subjunctive Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: ἔχω Sense: to have, i.e. to hold. |
Greek Commentary for 1 Timothy 5:20
The elders who continue to sin (present active participle). [source]
“In the eye of See next 1 Timothy 5:21 and Galatians 1:20. Public rebuke when a clear case, not promiscuous gossip. May be in fear (ποβον εχωσιν phobon echōsin). Present active subjunctive with ινα hina (final clause), “may keep on having fear” (of exposure). Possibly, “the rest of the elders.” [source]
Present active subjunctive with ινα hina (final clause), “may keep on having fear” (of exposure). Possibly, “the rest of the elders.” [source]
Referring to Elders, who, by reason of their public position ( προεστῶτες ), should receive public rebuke. [source]
Comp. 2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 1:9, Titus 1:13; Titus 2:15. See on reproved, John 3:20. [source]
More correctly, the rest. His fellow Elders. [source]
May have fear, which is stronger than A.V. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Timothy 5:20
Rather, in order that his works may not be reproved. Ελέγχω , rendered reprove, has several phases of meaning. In earlier classical Greek it signifies to disgrace or put to shame. Thus Ulysses, having succeeded in the trial of the bow, says to Telemachus, “the stranger who sits in thy halls disgraces ( ἐλέγχει ) thee not” (“Odyssey, xxi., 424). Then, to cross-examine or question, for the purpose of convincing, convicting, or refuting; to censure, accuse. So Herodotus: “In his reply Alexander became confused, and diverged from the truth, whereon the slaves interposed, confuted his statements ( ἤλεγχον , cross-questioned and caught him in falsehood), and told the whole history of the crime” (i., 115). The messenger in the “Antigone” of Sophocles, describing the consternation of the watchmen at finding Polynices' body buried, says: “Evil words were bandied among them, guard accusing ( ἐλέγχων ) guard” (260). Of arguments, to bring to the proof; prove; prove by a chain of reasoning. It occurs in Pindar in the general sense of to conquer or surpass. “Having descended into the naked race they surpassed ( ἤλεγξαν ) the Grecian band in speed (“Pythia,” xi., 75). In the New Testament it is found in the sense of reprove (Luke 3:19; 1 Timothy 5:20, etc.). Convince of crime or fault (1 Corinthians 14:24; James 2:9). To bring to light or expose by conviction (James 5:20; Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:13; John 8:46; see on that passage). So of the exposure of false teachers, and their refutation (Titus 1:9, Titus 1:13; Titus 2:15). To test and expose with a view to correction, and so, nearly equivalent to chasten (Hebrews 12:5). The different meanings unite in the word convict. Conviction is the result of examination, testing, argument. The test exposes and demonstrates the error, and refutes it, thus convincing, convicting, and rebuking the subject of it. This conviction issues in chastening, by which the error is corrected and the erring one purified. If the conviction is rejected, it carries with it condemnation and punishment. The man is thus convicted of sin, of right, and of judgment (John 16:8). In this passage the evil-doer is represented as avoiding the light which tests, that light which is the offspring of love (Revelation 3:19) and the consequent exposure of his error. Compare Ephesians 5:13; John 1:9-11. This idea of loving darkness rather than light is graphically treated in Job href="/desk/?q=job+24:13-17&sr=1">Job 24:13-17. -DIVIDER- -DIVIDER- [source]
Present active imperative of επιτιτημι epitithēmi in the sense of approval (ordination) as in Acts 6:6; Acts 13:3. But it is not clear whether it is the case of ministers just ordained as in 1 Timothy 4:14 (επιτεσις epithesis), or of warning against hasty ordination of untried men, or the recognition and restoration of deposed ministers (1 Timothy 5:20) as suits the context. The prohibition suits either situation, or both. [source]
Rather, convict of their errors. See on 1 Timothy 5:20and John 3:20. In Paul, 1 Corinthians 14:24; Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:13. Comp. ἐλεγμόν conviction 2 Timothy 3:16. [source]