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BRINGING AN
ACCUSATION AGAINST AN ELDER
1.
I Timothy 5:1
“Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father;
and the younger as brethren;”
“rebuke” = epitimao to strike upon
set a weight upon, chide
“intreat” = parakaleo to call for,
come along side of
“father” = pater = respect as a
father
- I Timothy 5:19
“Against an elder receive not an accusation,
but
before two or three
witnesses.
“against” = kata
against
“receive not” =
paradechomai to receive beside
“an accusation” = kategoria a speaking
down
Note:
As an accusation before a tribunal
- I Timothy 5:20
“Them (elders) that sin rebuke before all, that
others also may fear.”
“that sin”= hamartano
err, miss the mark, (continue to present active participle)
“rebuke before all” =
elegcho to convince, convict before all
“fear” = phobon to have
fear
- I Timothy 5:21
“I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the elect angels, that thou observe these things
without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.”
“observe” = phlasso krrp,
to guard, keep watch
“without preferring” =
prokrima preference, prejudice
“partiality” = prosklino
to incline towards one, a bearing toward
- Matthew 18:17
“Take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word may be established.”
“established” = histemi
to cause to stand
- John 8:17
“It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two
men is true.”
“true” = alethes
genuine, honest, sincere, stands the test of light
- II Corinthians 13:1
“In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be
established.”
“established” = histemi
to cause to stand
- Deuteronomy l7:6
“At the mouth of two, or three witnesses, shall he that is
worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one
witness he shall not be put to death.”
- Deuteronomy 19:15
“One witness shall not rise up against a man for any
iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at
the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses,
shall the matter be established.”
- Deuteronomy 19:16
“If a false witness rise up against any man to testify
against him that which is wrong; then both the men, between whom
the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the
priests and judges, which shall be in those days; and the judges
shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness
be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; then
shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
brother; so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. And
those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit
no more any such evil among you. And thine eye shall not pity; but life
shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for
foot.”
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