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Translations of 1 Timothy 2:4 on Universal Salvation

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 2.

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Translations of 1 Timothy 2:4 on Universal Salvation

1 Tim. ii. 4.

Many people rely on the above text as furnishing positive proof of the salvation of all men. We here give a number of translations of the text to show that the salvation of all men is not contemplated in the original.
MACKNIGHT.—“Who commandeth all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
WESLEY.—“Who willeth all men to be saved.” &c.
BELSHAM.—“Who willeth that all men should be saved,” &c.
WAKEFIELD.—“Who wisheth all men to be in safety,” &c.
DIAGLOTT.—“Who desires all men to be saved,” &c.
IMPROVED VERSION.—“Who desireth that all men should be saved,” &c.
OUR SAVIOUR.—Christ was the great promise of the Old Testament, the Spirit is the great promise of the New.