(pseudonymity).77 In light of the difficulties of accommodating the information contained in the LTT within the Acts chronology, postulating a date after the end of Acts may be the “simplest solution,”78 but this, too, is not without its difficulties. First, the ministry locations mentioned in the LTT may presuppose ministry in the East, such as Ephesus (1 Tim 3:14–15), Troas (2 Tim 4:13), and Miletus (2 Tim 4:20), a region Paul had left after the third missionary journey and didn’t expect to revisit
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