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Pastoral Epistles UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY AA 000 583 675 4 — —— \V O R K S OF PATRICK FAIRBAIRN, D.D., Principal and Professor of Theology in the Free Church College, Glasgota. In Two Volumes, Demy 8vo, price 21s., Fifth Edition, THE TYPOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE, Viewed in connection with the whole Series of the Divine Dispensations. •As the product of the labours of an original thinker and of a sound theologian, who has at the same time scarcely left unexamined one previous writer on the subject, ancient or modem, this work will be a most valuable accession to the library of the theological student. As a whole, we believe it may, with the strictest truth, be pronounced the best work on the subject that has yet been published.' Record. 'A work fresh and comprehensive, learned and sensible, and full of practical religious feeling. ' British and Foreign Evangelical Review. 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They are the writing of a man who is a laborious student of the Bible, and patient readers will find that they can learn something from him. ' Guardian. ' The tone and spirit of this volume are admirable. Tlie lectures are carefully elaborated, the arguments and scriptural illustrations seem to have passed each one under the author's scrutiny ; so that, besides unity of pur- pose in the lectures as a whole, we mark the conscientiousness that has '— sought to verify each separate statement. It is an excellent book. Nonconformist. THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. PRINTED BY MURRAY AND GIBB FOR T. & T. CLARK, EDINBURGH. CO. LONDON, . HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND DUBLIN, . JOHN ROBERTSON AND CO. NEW YORK, . SCRIBNER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG. THE PASTORAL EPISTLES, E]}t (^xct'k ^cxt antf translation. WITH INTRODUCTION, EXPOSITORY NOTES, AND DISSERTA TIONS. BY PATRICK FAIRBAIRN, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF FREE CHURCH COLLEGE, GLASGOW; AUTHOR OF ' TYPOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE,' ' REVELATION OF LAW,' ETC. , I 1 • V II EDINBURGH : T. & T. CLARK, GEORGE STREET. 1874. C C ( « c ti ccttttti <.<. ( c <, c YRL 6S 2735 n.5 PREFACE. ? «* THIS expository volume on the Pastoral Epistles had its origin in a department of labour connected with my official duties. Till lately, it was for many years my lot to conduct a class of Pastoral Theology for advanced students preparing for the work of the Christian ministry; and a portion of the time during each session was usually devoted to the exposition and illustration of more or less of those Epistles. Practically, it was found impossible to overtake more, in any particular session, than a comparatively limited portion of them. But as comments on the whole had been prepared, I have thought that the publication of them might be of some advantage to students of Sacred Scripture, especially to those who are either in the position of candi- dates for the ministry, or without lengthened experience in the discharge of its duties. The requirements and interests of such have been kept specially in view throughout the volume. On that account also, particular respect has been had, both in the course of exposition, and in the introduc- ^ tion and supplementary dissertations, to the objections X which have been urged—latterly, indeed, with great bold- ness and persistency—against the apostolic authorship and divine inspiration of these portions of New Testament Scripture. a756'?9 VIU PREFACE. The aim of this vokime, therefore, will readily be under- stood to differ considerably from that of Bishop EUicott's, whose commentary on the Pastoral Epistles bears the desig- nation of " critical and grammatical." The portion of the late Dean Alford's Cofumcnfary o?i the New Testament which embraces these Epistles is to a large extent of the same description. Both commentators have very ably accom- plished the objects they had more especially in view ; and the frequent references I have made to their productions will sufficiently evince how profoundly sensible I am of the services they have rendered to the correct knowledge of the language and import of the Epistles—though on points of some moment I have occasionally felt myself obliged to differ from each of them. While the critical and grammati- cal have been with me a somewhat less prominent object, neither of them has been overlooked ; and wherever the text or the construction is such as to call for special exami- nation or adjustment, this has uniformly received attention, before anything as to doctrine or instruction has been founded on the words. The text of Tischendorf, in his 8th edition, so nearly coincides with what I take to be the correct one, that I have simply adopted it—twice with a measure of hesitation (see pp. 273, 373), and once only with a formal dissent (p. 233). Minor deviations from the Received Text, as in respect to the spelling and order of words, I have consequently deemed it unnecessary to notice ; but wherever the sense has been at all affected by any change, the principal grounds have uniformly been adduced on which the text of Tischendorf seems entitled to the preference. In regard to the translation, my object has been simply PREFACE. IX to present the meaning of the original, as I understand it, in the words most nearly equivalent—whether they might accord with those of the Authorized Version or not. This, however, has never been needlessly departed from. With the view of rendering the exposition more extensively use- ful, I have also, for the most part, translated the quotations taken from the Greek and Latin commentators ; but the original has always been given when anything of moment depended upon the precise form of expression. The edition of Winer's Grammar referred to is that published by the Messrs. Clark, edited by the Rev. W. F. Moulton. May the effort here made to explain a portion of the Divine Word, and to vindicate and apply the important lessons of truth and duty therein contained, carry with it the Divine blessing, and prove, in however small a degree, conducive both to the due appreciation of the Word, and to the furtherance of the great ends of the Christian ministry. P. F. Glasgow, Jaimary 1S74. — CONTENTS. Introduction— PAGE Section I. The Authorship of the Epistles, I-I9 II. Times and Places of Writing, . 19-30 III. Notices of Timothy, . 31-34 IV. Notices of Titus, .... 35-36 Text and Translation of First Timothy, 3S-5I Text and Translation of Titus, 52-57 Text and Translation of Second Timothy, 5^67 Expository Notes on First Timothy, 71-254 Expository Notes on Titus, .... 255-305 Expository Notes on Second Timothy, . 306-404 Appendix A. The Peculiar Testimony for Gospel Times 405-416 Appendix B. —The Meaning of the Expression "Husband of one Wife," in i Tim iiL 2, etc., 416-432 Appendix C. —The Treatment of Slavery in New Testament Scripture, 432-451 Note on i Cor. vii. 21, 448-451 ERiL\TUM. —Omit "both" in chap. iv. 10, p. 45. THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. INTRODUCTION. Section i. — The Authorship of the Epistles, THE designation of Pastoral Epistles has been com- monly applied to the two Epistles to Timothy and the Epistle to Titus, because alike addressed to persons engaged in pastoral work, and chiefly discoursing of matters relating to such work. They all bear on their front the signature of the Apostle Paul ; and never till a compara- tively recent period has their connection with his name been called in question by any one having a recognised position in the Christian Church. There were parties in ancient times who excluded them from the list of St. Paul's genuine writings ; but these were the leaders of Gnosticism, rationalists of a very extreme type, and always regarded by the Fathers as opponents, rather than adherents, of the Christian faith.
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