Potentate
The word occurs only in the designation of God in 1Ti 6:15, the blessed and only Potentate (), the King of kings, and Lord of lords. This is the only instance in the NT in which the word is applied to God. It occurs with tolerable frequency in this sense in the apocryphal books, e.g. Sir 46:5-6, 2Ma 3:24; 2Ma 12:15, 3Ma 2:3. It is characteristic of the Pastoral Epistles to set God in the foreground as the author of salvation, and the heaping up of attributes in this passage to denote the Divine sovereignty may be merely an instance of this tendency. Some, however, find underlying it a protest against Gnostic misrepresentations, or against the growing practice of Emperor-worship.
G. Wauchope Stewart.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Potentate
poten-tat (, dunastes, mighty one, from , dunamai, to be able): A person who possesses great power and authority. Only in 1Ti 6:15, the blessed and only Potentate (= God). The same Greek word is used of Zeus in Sophocles (Ant. 608), and of God in Apocrypha (e.g. Sirach 46:5; 2 Macc 15:3, 13). It is used of men in Luk 1:52 (the King James Version the mighty, the Revised Version (British and American) princes) and Act 8:27 (of great authority).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Potentate
, ‘powerful one.’ Jehovah is the only Potentate. 1Ti 6:15. The word occurs also in Luk 1:52: Jehovah “hath put down ‘the mighty’ from their thrones.” And in Act 8:27, the eunuch was a man ‘of great authority’: they at times had more power than the kings.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Potentate
* For POTENTATE, used of God. 1Ti 6:15, see AUTHORITY, No. 4