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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.

this material, either backing up the instructions or developing the theological argument. The instructions and their rationale form part of a larger unit which begins with the injunction to pray for all, so that a peaceable and godly life would become possible (vv. 1–2). Attention then turns to conduct in the Christian assembly (vv. 8–12), and it transpires that this peaceable and godly ideal of ἡσυχία with εὐσέβεια also applies to public worship. For men, it is expressed in how they pray, exhibiting
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