Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Shortly (en taxei). Old idiom (locative case of taxov, quickness, speed). See Romans 16:20. A pseudonymous writer would hardly have put in this phrase. Paul's hopes were not to be realized, but he did not know that.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 3:14:
Acts 20:25
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