Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Who only hath immortality (o monov exwn aqanasian). "The one who alone has immortality." Aqanasia (aqanatov, a privative and qanatov), old word, in N.T. only here and I Corinthians 15:53 f. Domitian demanded that he be addressed as "Dominus et Deus noster." Emperor worship may be behind the use of monov (alone) here.
Unapproachable (aprositon). See Psalms 104:2. Late compound verbal adjective (a privative, pros, ienai, to go). Here only in N.T. Literary Koin‚ word.
Nor can see (oude idein dunatai). See aoraton in Colossians 1:15 and also John 1:18; Matthew 11:27. The "amen" marks the close of the doxology as in I Timothy 1:17.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 6:16:
1 Corinthians 15:53
1 Timothy 1:17
1 Peter 4:11
1 Peter 5:11
1 John 1:7
Jude 1:25
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