In the light of the parallels with Corinth, Towner concludes: Thus the major social problems addressed by the author are capable of being explained consistently as related to the over-realized eschatology. The parallel situation in Corinth seems to support the reconstruction of the situation in Ephesus offered here. The very limited amount of information about the Cretan community does not allow the same degree of certainty in reconstructing the background there. However, the similar descriptions