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The books of First Timothy, Second Timothy and Titus are frequently referred to as the Pastoral Epistles. The reason for this title is that the letters that Paul wrote in these 3 books were written to Timothy and Titus, two of his previous colleagues and apprentices as they had questions about many issues that they were facing and how to deal with them. The issues facing Timothy and Titus are...

[TG1849, ZG2026] (e.g., Rom 9:21; 13:1–3; 1 Cor 7:4, 37; 9:4–6, 12, 18; 11:10; 15:24; 2 Cor 10:8; 13:10; Eph 1:21; Col 1:16; 2 Thess 3:9; Titus 3:1). This means that Paul was highlighting the manner in which a woman taught—that is, a woman was not to teach in a domineering way (cf. the TNIV footnote). Evangelical scholarship has been largely dependent on Knight’s study for its understanding of authentein and his translation of authentekotos pros auton as, “I exercised authority over him” (1984:145).
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