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The most accessible, most broadly pitched full-length commentary on Timothy and Titus, this NICNT volume explores Paul’s three letters to Timothy and Titus within their historical, religious, and cultural settings. In his introduction, Towner sets out the rationale for his historical approach, questions certain assumptions of recent critical scholarship, and establishes the uniqueness and...

two interrelated objects of prayer: “everyone” and “kings and all those in authority.” The nature of their interrelationship is crucial to an understanding of the passage, and this needs to be teased out from the logic and flow of the argument. Four terms for prayer combine to express the subject of the passive infinitive “to be made” that supplies the content of the exhortation.7 Rather than understand the four terms as descriptive of a systematic liturgy of prayer, the thought is one of completeness
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