TIMOTHY, FIRST EPISTLE TO

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TIMOTHY, FIRST EPISTLE TO . This book of the New Testament is really a

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

upon church order, addressed by the apostle Paul to the Asiatic Christian communities in and round Ephesus (i.3).1 The object of the writing is stated in
iii. 15: 1- 44 I i bi airy Oeoi3 ava.Qrpkbeo-Oat. It is thrown into, the literary form2 of a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

from Paul to his lieutenant Timothy, but, as the closing salutation indicates (vi. 21, "grace be with you," spiv), the writer really has the Church in his mind all through. The Pauline standard of doctrine is set up (i. 3-20) as the norm of thought and practice. This trust and tradition is to be maintained throughout the churches. It involves, the writer proceeds to argue, the proper conduct of public

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

(ii. I seq., 8 seq.), and the proper qualification forepiscopi(iii. 2 seq.) and diaconi (iii. 8 seq.). The finale of this section (iii. 15-16) leads, by way of contrast, to a

sharp

SHARP,
GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE, GRANVILLE
- GRANVILLE, JOHN
  CARTERET
  - CARTERET, SIR GEORGE (c. 1610-1680)
  , EARL (1690-1763)
(1735-1813)
SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

prophetic warning against contemporary errorists(iv. 1 seq.), with advice upon the proper management of various classes of people within the Church (v. 1 seq.).

Special

SPECIAL

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 wealth (6 seq.) and an impressive closing charge (II seq.). The writing closes with the , Xaptn O' vlliav of verse 21. The context and contents of vi. 17-21a suggest that it is a later

interpolation

INTERPOLATION (from Lat. interpolare, to alter, or insert something fresh, connected with pollee, a polish)

, such as writings on church discipline were
i The same

motive

MOTIVE (from Lat. movere, to move)

occurs in the

preface

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

to Irenaeus's treatise, Adv. ivies.

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