1Ti 1:19-20 | TNotes | STEP | 1:19 See also 1:5-6 ; 6:20-21 ; 2 Tim 2:15-18 . Conscience is viewed as a kind of gyroscope; keeping your conscience clear (or good ) means ensuring that it is not destroyed (see study note on 1 Tim 4:2).

1:19 ^a See also 1:5-6 ^b; 6:20-21 ^c; 2 Tim 2:15-18 ^d. Conscience is viewed as a kind of gyroscope; keeping your conscience clear (or good) means ensuring that it is not destroyed (see study note on 1 Tim 4:2).
1:20 ^e Hymenaeus and Alexander might have been elders in Ephesus (see also 2 Tim 2:17 ^f; 4:14 ^g; cp. Acts 19:33 ^h; 20:29-31 ⁱ).

• Paul handed them over to Satan by removing them from the church, the realm of the Spirit’s oversight (see also 2 Tim 2:25-26 ^j; Job 2:6 ^k; Matt 18:17-20 ^l; 1 Cor 5:2-5 ^m; 2 Cor 2:5-11 ⁿ).

• blaspheme God: They attacked and defamed the true Good News, and thus God himself (see 1 Tim 1:13 ^o; cp. 6:1 ^p; Titus 2:5 ^q; 2 Pet 2:2 ^r).