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<div2 id="iTim.i" n="i" next="iTim.ii" prev="iTim" progress="68.08%" title="Introduction">
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<div class="Center" id="iTim.i-p0.1"><h2 id="iTim.i-p0.2">First Timothy</h2>
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<p id="iTim.i-p1">Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="iTim.i-p1.1">Benjamin Andrews
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Atkinson</span>.</p>
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</div>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="iTim.i-Page_806" n="806"/>
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<div class="Center" id="iTim.i-p1.3">
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<p id="iTim.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iTim.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iTim.i-p2.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iTim.i-p2.3">OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO</h5>
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<h2 id="iTim.i-p2.4">T I M O T H Y.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iTim.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="iTim.i-p3.1">Hitherto</span>
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Paul's epistles were directed to churches; now follow some to
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particular persons: two to Timothy, one to Titus, and another to
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Philemon—all three ministers. Timothy and Titus were evangelists,
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an inferior order to the apostles, as appears by <scripRef id="iTim.i-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Eph.4.11" parsed="|Eph|4|11|0|0" passage="Eph 4:11">Eph. iv. 11</scripRef>, <i>Some prophets, some apostles,
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some evangelists.</i> Their commission and work was much the same
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with that of the apostles, to plant churches, and water the
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churches that were planted; and accordingly they were itinerants,
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as we find Timothy was. Timothy was first converted by Paul, and
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therefore he calls him his <i>own son in the faith:</i> we read of
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his conversion, <scripRef id="iTim.i-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:Acts.16.3" parsed="|Acts|16|3|0|0" passage="Ac 16:3">Acts xvi.
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3</scripRef>.</p>
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<p class="indent" id="iTim.i-p4">The scope of these two epistles is to
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direct Timothy how to discharge his duty as an evangelist at
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Ephesus, where he now was, and where Paul ordered him for some time
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to reside, to perfect the good work which he had begun there. As
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for the ordinary pastoral charge of that church, he had very
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solemnly committed it to the presbytery, as appears from <scripRef id="iTim.i-p4.1" osisRef="Bible:Acts.20.28" parsed="|Acts|20|28|0|0" passage="Ac 20:28">Acts xx. 28</scripRef>, where he charges the
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presbyters <i>to feed the flock of God, which he had purchased with
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his own blood.</i></p>
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</div2>
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