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1 & 2 Timothy and Titus: A Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pastoral Epistles present difficult questions for the modern interpreter, including such matters as their authorship, literary characteristics, and social orientations. Raymond Collins carefully leads the reader through the texts of these three documents, attending to the flow of the pastor’s thought and locating it within the Jewish and Hellenistic culture of his day.

Smyrna was unanimous in accepting the Pauline authorship of the epistle, uncertainty reigned over the precise circumstances of its composition. According to the epistle, Timothy has been mandated by Paul to remain in Ephesus in order to confront false teachers with heartfelt love, a good conscience, and an authentic faith (1:3–5). These troublesome people purported to be teachers of the law but did not understand what they were talking about (1:6), with the result that they were expositing myth and
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