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The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of the many English commentaries on these letters, none are as replete with quotations from extra-biblical materials as this work by Conzelmann and Dibelius. The authors provide references to Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian sources, specifically as each pertains to the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.

Personal Authentication in View of Heretics 2 Timothy 2:14–26* 14 You must remind (the people) of this and adjure (them) in the face of God not to bring ruin upon their hearers through disputes about words (which are) useful for nothing. 15/ Make every effort to present yourself before God as proven, as a worker who need not be ashamed, who teaches the word of truth rightly. 16/ But flee from godless chatter; because (throughout) they will make more and more progress into godlessness, 17/ and their
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