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This commentary offers a verse-by-verse theological interpretation of the First and Second epistles to Timothy and Titus. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or not they are post-apostolic, instead looking closely at how they have been understood in the life of the Church. Bray engages with the history of...

A plan that was not implemented would have been useless, but so would activity that lacked a clear purpose. The two things must go together and we ought to retain both in our interpretation.46 The genealogical records preserved in the Bible are there to remind us of the faithfulness of past generations who preserved God’s revelation to them and passed his promises on intact to their successors. As Christians, we have inherited those promises and must be grateful for that. When we read the Old Testament
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