As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus. The letter properly begins here with Paul reminding Timothy of his urgent request to him to stay on in Ephesus, the capital city of the Roman province of Asia, to sort out certain problems that had arisen in the church there. Paul himself had gone on to Macedonia in the north of Greece, perhaps in fulfilment of his promise to the church at Philippi (Phil. 2:24). These movements do not fit in
Page 26