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The apostle Paul’s New Testament letters to Timothy and Titus offer crucial guidelines for pastors and church leaders. Montague presents sound exegesis that fully explores the offices and duties proposed in the first century, explains how they differ from contemporary practice, and reflects on the pastoral, theological, and practical applications of the text.

2:3 If this prayer includes persecutors, it is not wholly disinterested. The great good it seeks is in the first place “peace,” the needed calm and tranquility without war and persecution, so that the Church may lead its life without harassment (Acts 24:2). But this freedom is not merely freedom from. It is freedom for. “Devotion” translates the Greek word eusebeia. Other translations render it “godliness” or “piety” or “religion.” In the Septuagint the noun regularly stands for “fear of God,” that
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