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**Verse 1**
*Doctrines of devils;* corrupt and wicked doctrines.

**Verse 2**
*Seared with a hot iron;* hardened to sin.

**Verse 3**
*Forbidding,* &c.; that is, enjoining self-imposed penances and mortifications, as a mode of obtaining the favor of God. There has been, in all ages of the church, a great tendency to this error.

**Verse 7**
*Refuse;* reject.--*Old wives' fables;* nursery tales, which can only please the merest children in religious knowledge.--*Rather unto godliness,* that is, to moral and spiritual purity, rather than outward sanctity, sought through self-inflicted mortification.

**Verse 8**
*Bodily exercise;* the training of the body to privations and hardships, as specified above.--*Godliness;* holiness of heart.

**Verse 10**
*Who is the Savior of all men;* inasmuch as he offers salvation to all.

**Verse 12**
*Let no man despise thy youth;* that is, let your life and conversation be such that they will not.

**Verse 14**
*The gift;* the ministerial office.--*By prophecy;* by divine direction.--*The presbytery;* the eldership, referring to those older than himself in the ministerial work, by whom he was solemnly inducted to the office.

**Verse 15**
*Thy profiting;* thy spiritual advancement and welfare.

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