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Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator, or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations: Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible; Second Timothy Titus Philemon Tin Amonsmr or m Erism. - In several passages this Epistle bears the stamp of genuineness as a writing of St. Paul's, notably at chaps. I. 5-18 and iv. 9-22. In particular, the opening thanksgiving (chap. I. 8) is characteristic of Paul, eight of his ten other Epistles having a similar commencement. At the same time this is not such a prominent feature as to lead to imitation; and, as a matter of fact, it is not found in the two other Pastoral Epistles. A strong proof of genuineness is afforded by the proper names in the Epistle. They are twenty-three in number, including ten mentioned elsewhere. In connection with several of these ten, remarks are made which a forgerwould have been very unlikely to invent; e.g., Demas forsook me, having loved this present world (chap. Iv. 10; cf. Col. Iv. Is a record more like what we should have expected to find concerning Mark, in view of his former desertion of Paul (acts xiii. Whereas we find favourable mention of him in this Epistle (chap. Iv. Dalmatia is also a strange place to have invented as a destination for Titus (chap. Iv. Considering that he had been written to so recently at Crete. A striking argument has been derived from the occurrence of the name Linus in chap. Iv. 21. The argument is based on the fact that Linus, Cletus, and Clement are the names of the first three bishops of the Church of Rome, preserved in her Eucharistic Service, dating from the second century. If the Epistle had been written in the post-apostolic age, Linus, it is held, would have been sure to receive a more prominent place in the list of saluta tions, and his name would have been accompanied with that of Cletus, or at all events with that of Clement, as the latter was behaved to have been an immediate disciple of Paul. (j. A. Mcclymont, b.d.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
