OT: Josh 1:6–9; Dan 7:9–14 NT: Acts 10:42; 1 Tim 1:3–7; 4:11–16; 5:20; 6:2b–5; 1 Pet 4:4–5 Catechism: final judgment (1038–41), bishops as teachers and rulers (1558), myths (285) Lectionary: (4:1–5) Common of Pastors and of Doctors of the Church 4:1 At this point the letter becomes even more clearly Paul’s last will and testament. The tone becomes the gravest, the most solemn of Paul’s injunctions. In fact, it is as if Paul puts Timothy under a divine oath. The word charge was used in Greece for