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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>First Timothy</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by B<FONT SIZE=-1>ENJAMIN</FONT> A<FONT SIZE=-1>NDREWS</FONT>
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A<FONT SIZE=-1>TKINSON</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>T I M O T H Y.</B></FONT>
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H<FONT SIZE=-1>ITHERTO</FONT>
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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, an
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inferior order to the apostles, as appears by
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+4:11">Eph. iv. 11</A>,
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<I>Some prophets, some apostles, some evangelists.</I> Their commission
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and work was much the same with that of the apostles, to plant
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churches, and water the churches that were planted; and accordingly
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they were itinerants, as we find Timothy was. Timothy was first
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converted by Paul, and therefore he calls him his <I>own son in the
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faith:</I> we read of his conversion,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+16:3">Acts xvi. 3</A>.</P>
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The scope of these two epistles is to direct Timothy how to discharge
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his duty as an evangelist at Ephesus, where he now was, and where Paul
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ordered him for some time to reside, to perfect the good work which he
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had begun there. As for the ordinary pastoral charge of that church, he
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had very solemnly committed it to the presbytery, as appears from
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+20:28">Acts xx. 28</A>,
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where he charges the presbyters <I>to feed the flock of God, which he
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