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1 and 2 Timothy and Titus were once read as individual collections of traditional material—liturgical formulae, lists of virtues and vices, household codes, and codes for church order—but more recent studies have elucidated the coherence of each epistle. This volume exhorts readers through explicit and implicit, positive and negative examples, and through arguments that seek to ground ethics...

references to God as the only God (1 Tim. 1:17; 6:15) are taken up from 2 Kgs. 19:15, 19; Isa. 37:20 or from other parts of the New Testament (e.g. Rom. 16:27), as are the expressions of God’s praise in the same verses (e.g. Tob. 13:6, 10; LXX Ps. 83:4; Gal. 1:5; Phil. 4:20). Again there seem to be allusions both to Korah’s rebellion against Moses (Num. 16:5) and to Isa. 26:13 in 2 Tim. 2:19, allusions which are used to encourage the repentance of false teachers; while in 3:8 false teachers are likened
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