Introduction 1. The Question of Authenticity Any judgment as to what the Pastorals are and intend to be depends in great measure upon the question of authorship. The person who considers them to be genuine Pauline epistles must understand them as portions of Paul’s correspondence. In that case, 2 Tim best fits our accustomed picture of the Pauline letter because 1) in 2 Tim, especially in the last chapter, the personal element is strongly emphasized, and 2) because the exhortations in the epistle