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The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

Of the many English commentaries on these letters, none are as replete with quotations from extra-biblical materials as this work by Conzelmann and Dibelius. The authors provide references to Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian sources, specifically as each pertains to the linguistic and conceptual problems the letters contain.

the “bishop” (ἐπίσκοπος), as “for” (οὖν) in v. 2* shows.13 ■ 2*, 3* “Without reproach” (ἀνεπίλημπτος)14 is found in the NT only in this epistle, but it is common in the higher Koine.15 With regard to “the husband of one wife” (μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἄνδρα, see v. 12*), the question has long since been raised (as it has with regard to Tit 1:6* and 1 Tim 5:9*) whether unchastity, viz. polygamy, or a second marriage, is excluded.16 The arguments for the latter assumption are: 1.
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