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The Letter to Titus: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary and An Introduction to Titus, I and II Timothy, The Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Letter to Titus, one of the three “Pastoral Epistles” of the New Testament, has over the last twenty years become the ground of intense controversy—theologically, sociologically, even politically. For this letter (like its companions, I and II Timothy) dates to a time when the Apostles are gone and a new church leadership is evolving. In Titus we read instruction that is of continuing...

ecclesial developments as well as some linkage with the Paul of history and his apostolate (including perhaps short dispatches that he had sent to his coworkers); thus W. Lock (Commentary, xxii, “between 60 and 90 is probable”; see Falconer, PE). This commentary favors 80–85 for the letters as we have them. Some authors have been impressed by the linguistic and theological links between the PE and Luke–Acts. The NOTES and COMMENTS that follow call particular attention to the parallels in the Lukan
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