or another come within the reach of his benevolence,77 and even the circle of those to whom the message of salvation is proclaimed is wider than the circle of those who accept it by a true faith. This is really all that is needed in clarification of our present passage, 1 Tim. 4:10. What the apostle teaches amounts, accordingly, to this, “We have our hope set on the living God, and in this hope we shall not be disappointed, for not only is he a kind God, hence the Soter (Preserver, Deliverer) of