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The Significance of Salvation: A Study of Salvation Language in the Pastoral Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The language and ideas of salvation pervade the three Pastoral Epistles. This study offers a close examination of their soteriological statements. In all three letters the idea of salvation is found to play a vital paraenetic role, but each also exhibits distinctive soteriological emphases. The results challenge common assumptions about the Pastoral Epistles as a corpus.

Explicit salvation language abounds in 1 Timothy. God is 3× referred to as θεὸς σωτήρ (1:1; 2:3; 4:10) and is declared to desire πάντας ἀνθρώπους … σωθῆναι (2:4). The “faithful word” is recorded, ὅτι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς ἤλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἁμαρτωλοὺς σῶσαι (1:15); Timothy is urged, καὶ σεαυτὸν σώσεις καὶ τοὺς ἀκούοντας σου (4:16); and there is the puzzling statement that [ἡ γυνὴ] σωθήσεται … διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας (2:15). Paul’s
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