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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...

There can be no softening of hypotagē, which suggests not simply an attitude, but a structural placement of one person below another (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.66.3; 2 Cor 9:13; Gal 2:5). The same demand will be made of the children of a household in 1 Tim 3:4 (compare Tit 2:5, 9; 3:1). 12. I do not entrust teaching to a woman: This can be rendered more literally as “I do not allow [epitrepō] to a woman to teach.” For the strength of epitrepō, compare Epictetus, Discourses
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