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Thomas C. Oden provides a modern commentary on the pastoral letters grounded in the classical, consensual tradition of interpretation. He depends on the writers Athanasius, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Jerome, Luther, Calvin, Henry, and Wesley. His underlying conviction is that these classical Christian exegetes are better interpreters of the pastorals, not simply because they were earlier but...

of teaching church doctrine in a public worship setting, which had apparently been disrupted by the women who assumed a type of teaching role, under their false teachers, that evidenced a domineering attitude toward their husbands or other men in general. The problem behavior may have been some sort of boisterous public display or unconventional touting of heresies (Padgett). It should be remembered that women had teaching roles and offices in the New Testament church: In Titus 2:3–4 older women
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