I Timothy—Advice for Office Bearers (2)

Paul wrote this letter to Timothy after he had left him in Ephesus and went on to Macedonia. You will recall that this took place between the two imprisonments of Paul at Rome. The occasion was the special needs that Timothy had while he continued to minister to the church at Ephesus. That congregation had been the object of much labor on the part of the apostle Paul. During his third missionary journey, Paul had labored there for some three years. On his way to Jerusalem, he bid farewell to...