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These three letters, which form a distinct group in the Pauline corpus, claim to be dispatches of the great Apostle to two of his most trusted lieutenants. The Pastorals have a special interest and importance. As letters they differ from the majority of Pauline letters, being written for individuals rather than churches. They lift the curtain revealingly from aspects of the Apostle’s activities...

braiding the hair, which was a regular feature of the coiffure of fashionable women, Jewish and pagan, in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. The Apostle wants the feminine section of the congregation to make themselves attractive, but, as befits women who claim to be religious, with good deeds. The alternative rendering ‘as befits women who give proof of their religious profession by good works’ is syntactically possible, but the contrast between adorning oneself with fine trappings and with a
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