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The First and Second Letters to Timothy: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today’s world. They contain much that makes modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including pronouncements on the place of women in the Church and on homosexuality, as well as polemics against the so-called “false teachers.” They have also been of a source of questions within...

God? Finally, the prepositional phrase en pistei stands in a detached fashion, making it unclear what it modifies. Does it specify a mode of management/ordering? Or does it refer to the sphere within which the ordering takes place? Or does it mean a manner of relating oneself to the management/ordering? Since all these decisions must be made simultaneously and without a great deal of guidance from the context, it is understandable that simple translation, much less a sense of the statement’s thematic
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