1Tim 1:17: Text and notes in copyable format below.
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“Now to the King of
immemorial ages,
immortal¹, invisible², alone³
Almĩghty, be honor and
glory
till onward of
ages immemorial of the
ages immemorial.
Amæn.” (MISB: 1Tim. 1:17)
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1. Immortal means, incorruptible or undying. The Almighty One by nature is not subject to any death process or mortality. But this does not prevent him from experiencing death by killing, because killing is not the same as a mortal decay. The Scripture hints at the distinction by teaching that even Messiah’s body did not decay. It is also evident that Messiah’s Spirit was preserved in death being received by the Father in an unconscious state, until awakened by the Father. Then Messiah raised his own body. So Messiah died the first death, not the second, where the spirit is destroyed in the lake of fire. Messiah himself is fundamentally immortal, and what was necessary in his death on the tree was finished when his vital signs ceased and his spirit entered unconsciousness. He said, “It is finished” just before he gave up the Spirit. He really died, and experienced everything experienciable in death, but this is possible while being immortal by nature.
2. Again invisible refers to the fundamental irreduciable nature of the Almighty. What is really “Him” is in essence invisible. For He is Spirit. The Almighty one is the only being who can truly exist as invisible without bodily parameters or containers to be in. This, however, does not limit him from entering into a body, or limiting part of himself to be so contained. Messiah himself could exist as invisible without His body, and probably did when he was not manifesting himself in the Angel of Yahweh. We cannot. So invisibility is a natural attribute that the Son may assume. In essence all spirits are invisible, so what is meant here is capacity for independent invisibility, i.e. without any created limiting system integrated with the spirit.
3. The word alone here can be interpreted two ways. Often it is used in the sense of by oneself or separately. In that sense it means that the Almighty is self-sufficiently Almighty by himself, needing no assistance from anything or anyone. It thus reinforces the idea of power already in the descriptive title Almighty. The other way to take alone is that the Almighty is alone Deity, and there are no other dieties. This sense would require us to understand, Father, Son, and Spirit in Paul’s statement, which is not at all improbable.
1Tim 6:14: Text and notes in copyable format below.
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that you keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the manifestation of
our Lõrd
Yẽshua the
Mẽssiah, 15
which he¹ will display at the proper time—the blessed
one, and alone² Sovereign, the King of kings and
Lõrd of lords³;
16 who alone¹
has immortalityª, dwelling
in unapproachable light—which² no man sees or
is able to see³. To him be honor
and
enduring dominion!
Amæn. (MISB, 1Tim. 6:14-16).
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15.1 The pronoun he is implicit in the verb conjugation (3ms), and refers to Messiah.
15.2 The word alone in Hebrew and Greek means being by himself, or being separate and off alone by himself. It also has this sense is English, but it is a fine shade of meaning. It means that when Messiah is isolated alone by himself, then he is a lone Sovereign. Of course, Messiah is not always off by himself, but is with the Father and the Spirit, when he is not manifesting himself to man. Paul is merely going out of his way here to say that Messiah is the Almighty King in the most thorough sense (at the times when he is alone), because there were many causing division by denying it. So alone he is Sovereign, and when united with Father and Spirit he is Sovereign.
15.3 The word alone applies to the whole phrase, as can be seen from its repetition in vs. 16. What we should see here is that the phrase, Lord of lord and King of kings is used in Revelation 17:14 to decribe the lamb, and also Revelation 19:16. So there is no doubt that the same phrase in this verse means Messiah. Yeshua also says “I am the first and the last”. How can this be true when it is true of the Father also. It is like a race. If both finish at the same time, then both are in first place. So the Son alone is Adonai Yahweh, and the Father alone is Adonai Yahweh.
16.1 Alone here means separately. By himself the Almighty Son is immortal by nature. By himself he dwells in unapproachable light, because he is the Eternal Life (Dan. 12:7; 1John 1:2; 5:20) as the Father is Eternal Life, as the Spirit is Eternal Life. And all other life is not immortal by nature.
16.a Immortality does not mean unkillable. It means not having a mortal or corruptible nature. Messiah’s body did not see corruption or decay in the first death. That even his body did not decay teaches us that he is Almighty. The first death does not mean the destruction of the Spirit in Messiah. Only the second death would do that. So when Messiah died, his Spirit entered an unconscious state, and then was awakened by the Father after three days. Then Messiah raised his own body. Whereas in death the human spirit may disintegrate in an entropic state, we can assume from the fact that his body did not decay that neither did his Spirit enter an entropic state. Messiah did die, and experienced everything that has to do with death—that can be experienced. None of this is actually contradictory to an immortal nature. And those who would say so are massaging the definitions to make it seem so, and at the same time limiting what the Almighty can do.
16.2 The relative pronoun refers to Messiah’s unapproachable light, or Messiah when dwelling in unaproachable light. The light is Spirit and is identified with Messiah’s self, or veiled self. This is probably why the relative pronoun stands in the masculine gender. The word light on the other hand is neuter, and Paul did not have a choice there. In Hebrew no such dilemma would occur since the relative pronoun is not inflected for gender.
16.3 Again, Paul is according Messiah Yeshua the highest place here. He is Elohæi ha-elohim v-Adonæy ha-adonim. The Son, of course, manifests the Father, and the Spirit in the form of physical man that we can see. This passage is not denying that, nor does it deny John 1:18. The Son, you see does not always dwell in unapproachable light without veiling it, but he veils it from time to time to relate to man. The text only says he dwells in. It does not say that he shows his unapproachable light everywhere he goes. He shroud’s his light so that man can approach him. Exodus 24:9-11 makes it clear that Yahweh veils his glory so as to relate to man.