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The Pastoral Epistles: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

In contrast with other Pauline epistles addressed to churches, the pastoral epistles were written to individuals and were very personal. Yet in their personal nature, they were communicating information to the communities to which Timothy and Titus were ministering, says Donald Guthrie. “They are the natural and human expressions of the apostle’s own reflections about the future of the work he is...

In verses 3–6 three suggestive illustrations are used to encourage Timothy in various aspects of his work. All three, the soldier, the athlete and the labourer, are taken from common life and are frequent literary metaphors, applied here in a specifically spiritual sense. From the soldier Timothy must learn endurance, from the athlete discipline and from the labourer perseverance.
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