1 Timothy 1:12-17

Pastoral Letters

Our text comes early in the pastoral letter of 1 Timothy, right after a brief welcome to the letter’s recipient and an exhortation to fight against the false teachers who have presumably been wreaking havoc on the this Christian community, presumably in Ephesus.

As one of the pastoral letters, 1 Timothy has often not received the same level of attention as some of the other Pauline letters, this in large part due to Protestant scholarship over the last 150 years questioning Paul’s authorship of the letter, or if it was written later and then merely attributed to him as a way of gaining legitimacy for the letter.

As one definitely unequipped to form any significant judgment on the matter, my only suggestion would be to question…