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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...

in each case.67 A range of usage is apparent in the NT68 and in cases where human relationships are in view, any sense of rigid hierarchy is moderated somewhat by the note of willingness (expressed in the middle voice) in the act of submitting.69 The point is, to define the position (role, attitudes, etc.) of the learner in terms of “submission” is not necessarily to apply all that “submission” might imply when descriptive of other relationships (master/slave; husband/wife). Nevertheless, that the
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