ε ,
ἡσύχιον βίον διάγοιμεν.
THEopotus (Excerpta ex Scriptis Theodoti, Clem. ΑἹ. p. 350).
(1 Tim. vi. 16). καὶ ὁ μὲν φῶς ἀπρόσιτον εἴρηται.
THE EPISTLE OF THE CHURCHES OF VIENNE AND Lyows (circ.180).
* Buseb. Η.Ε. ν. i. (1 Tim. tii, 15). ἐνέσκηψεν ἡ ὀργὴ . . . εἰς
” ~ Ν ~ a Άτταλον Περγαμηνὸν τῷ γένει, στύλον καὶ ἑδραίωμα τῶν ἐνταῦθα ἀεὶ γεγονότα.
{1 ΠῚ Ππ|..} Vis 13). ὁ δὲ . . . Ποθεινς . . . ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα ἐσύρετο . . . ὡς αὐτοῦ ὄντος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἀπεδίδου τήν καλὴν μαρτυρίαν. Euseb. H.E. v. 3 (1 Tim. iv. 3, 4). ὁ ᾿Αλκιβιάδης, μὴ χρώμενος
τοῖς κτίσμασι τοῦ Θεοῦ . . . πεισθεὶς δὲ ὁ ᾿Αλκιβιάδης πάντων
ἀνέδην μετελάμβανε καὶ ηὐχαρίστει τῷ Θεῷ.
THEOPHILUS OF ANTIOCH (circ. 181).
*ad Autol. i. 1 (2 Tim. iii. 8). φράσις εὐεπὴς τέρψιν παρέχει. . . ἀνθρώποις ἔχουσι τὸν νοῦν κατεφθαρμένον.
*ad Απμίοϊ. ii. 16 (Tit. iii. 5; 1 Tim. ii. 4 (?)). ἔτι μὴν καὶ εὐλογήθη ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ τὰ ἐκ τῶν ὑδάτων γενόμενα, ὅπως ᾖ καὶ τοῦτο εἰς δεῖγμα τοῦ μέλλειν λαμβάνειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους μετάνοιαν καὶ ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν διὰ ὕδατος καὶ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας πάντας τοὺς προσιόντας τῇ ἀληθείᾳ.
ad Autol. iii. 14 (Tit. iii. 1; Tim. ii. 2). ἔτι μὴν καὶ περὶ τοῦ ὑ πο- τάσσεσθαι ἀρχαῖς καὶ ἐξουσίαις, καὶ εὔχεσθαι ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν κελεύει ἡμᾶς ὁ Θεῖος λόγος, ὅπως ἤρεμον καὶ ἡσύχιον βίον διάγωμεν.
Tue INTEGRITY OF THE LETTERS.
It is scarcely too much to say that but for the difficulty presented by their style, and the assumption that St. Paul never left Rome alive, no one would have suspected these letters of being a com- pilation. But inasmuch as no one has been found to deny the bona fide Pauline character of some sections of them—at least in 2 Timothy—those who impugn the genuineness of the letters as they have come down to us have been compelled to exercise much ingenuity in attempts to apportion the matter of the letters between St. Paul and the compiler or compilers. For an account of their schemes the student is referred to the articles on these epistles in Hastings D. B., and the Encyclopedia Biblica, and for a fuller account, to Moffatt’s Historical N. T.
To those who agree that the problem presented by the style and the historical setting of the Pastorals is unsolved, but not insoluble, all attempts to decompose these letters will seem unprofitable. There is sound sense in the old scholastic maxim: ‘‘ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem”. The case of the Pastorals is not like that of 2 Corinthians, in which plausible reasons may be alleged for theories of dislocation. There is no difficulty in presenting such an outline of 1 Tim. or 2 Tim. or Tit. as will show it to be a single letter, with as much unity of purpose as a bona fide letter— not a college essay—can be expected to have.