The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded - David Dickson (Bible Commentary)

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00 Contents 00:00:00
01 1 Timothy 1 00:02:03
02 1 Timothy 2 00:17:50
03 1 Timothy 3 00:27:37
04 1 Timothy 4 00:41:44
05 1 Timothy 5 00:53:44
06 1 Timothy 6 01:08:58

Dickson is a writer after our own heart. For preachers he is a great ally. There is nothing brilliant or profound; but everything is clear and well arranged, and the unction runs down like the oil from Aaron’s head. In this volume the observations are brief. - Summary by Charles Spurgeon

The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, Analytically Expounded - David Dickson (Bible Commentary)

David Dickson (or Dick, c.1583–1663) was a Scottish theologian. He was the only son of John Dick or Dickson, a merchant in the Trongate of Glasgow, whose father was an old feuar of some lands called the Kirk of Muir, in the parish of St. Ninians, Stirlingshire. He was born in Glasgow about 1583, and educated at the university, where he graduated M.A., and was appointed one of the regents or professors of philosophy, a position limited to eight years. On the conclusion of his term of office Dickson was in 1618 ordained minister of the parish of Irvine. In 1620 he was named in a leet of seven to be a minister in Edinburgh, but since he was suspected of nonconformity his nomination was not pressed.

Having publicly testified against the Five Articles of Perth, he was at the instance of James Law, archbishop of Glasgow, summoned to appear before the high court of commission at Edinburgh, 9 January 1622; but having declined the jurisdiction of the court, he was subsequently deprived of his ministry in Irvine, and ordained to proceed to Turriff, Aberdeenshire, within twenty days. When he was about to proceed on his journey northward, the Archbishop of Glasgow, at the request of the Earl of Eglinton, permitted him to remain in Ayrshire, at