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TIMOTHY, FIRST EPISTLE TO

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 991 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIMOTHY, FIRST See also:EPISTLE TO . This See also:book of the New Testament is really a See also:pastoral See also:letter upon See also:church See also:order, addressed by the apostle See also:Paul to the See also:Asiatic See also:Christian communities in and See also:round See also:Ephesus (i.3).1 The See also:object of the See also:writing is stated in iii. 15: 1- 44 I €i bi See also:airy Oeoi3 See also:ava.Qrpkbeo-See also:Oat. It is thrown into, the See also:literary form2 of a letter from Paul to his See also:lieutenant Timothy, but, as the closing salutation indicates (vi. 21, "See also:grace be with you," spiv), the writer really has the Church in his mind all through. The Pauline See also:standard of See also:doctrine is set up (i. 3-20) as the norm of thought and practice. This See also:trust and tradition is to be maintained throughout the churches. It involves, the writer proceeds to argue, the proper conduct of public See also:worship (ii. I seq., 8 seq.), and the proper qualification forepiscopi(iii. 2 seq.) and diaconi (iii. 8 seq.).

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finale of this See also:section (iii. 15-16) leads, by way of contrast, to a See also:sharp prophetic warning against contemporary errorists(iv. 1 seq.), with See also:advice upon the proper management of various classes of See also:people within the Church (v. 1 seq.). See also:Special See also:attention is given to the ecclesiastical widows " (3 seq.) and to presbyters (17 seq.). After a word on slaves and masters (vi. 1-2), the epistle recurs to the errorists (vi. 3 seq.), passing into a warning against See also:wealth (6 seq.) and an impressive closing See also:charge (II seq.). The writing closes with the , Xaptn O' vlliav of See also:verse 21. The context and contents of vi. 17-21a suggest that it is a later See also:interpolation, such as writings on church discipline were i The same See also:motive occurs in the See also:preface to See also:Irenaeus's See also:treatise, Adv. ivies.

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