5:23 One of the problems of the false teachers involved the practice of asceticism concerning foods (4:3). Perhaps Timothy had been influenced by this practice, and Paul now advised him about it. Paul gave fatherly directives to Timothy in urging him to take some wine to help his digestion. Contaminated water may have aggravated Timothy’s problems, and both Jews and Greeks had used wine for medicinal purposes. Paul did not intend to lead Timothy into slavery to alcohol. His advice resembles the directive, “Take a tonic for your stomach.”
Thomas D. Lea and Hayne P. Griffin, 1, 2 Timothy, Titus, vol. 34, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1992), 158.
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