Timothy to Hebrews - The Preterist Archive

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the use of other letters of Paul, and the supposed ecclesiastical
formula of ii. 8, comp. the exposition. I merely recall further the
statement of the Greneral Introduction of the impossibility of explaining
the origin of this letter from the purposes of a fabricator.
The purposes assumed as the ground of the other epistles, viz.,
the refutation of gnosticism and the support of the hierarchy, cannot
be attributed to this which deals with Timothy personally ; it
must therefore be assumed that the author has lost sight of his object,
and a paternal letter of admonition sprung up under his hand
—a letter which in such regular method as is shewn § 1, 2, holds up
before Timothy his present duties as an evangelist, and exhorts him
to a service of love toward the apostle.