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“…the candidate for their common priesthood had to be prudent, well-behaved at all times, an example to the world, constant in faith and a lover of tradition, therefore able to correct those in error.”
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Dear Paul. He comes off brilliantly in this letter to Saint Timothy, the second one to that bishop of Ephesus
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This most touching letter of Saint Paul to one of his first bishops, after Saint Timothy had been given the
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“…Christians should stand firm by the traditions given them by the Apostles, and so weather the storm to come, together, supporting each other.”
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“We take our sinful nature and bury it in the depths of the waters of baptism, entering into the grave with Christ. With that nature now dead, the guilt of former sin is ended. And then we emerge as new creatures…”
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“…Onesimus, a servant of Philemon’s who seems to have displeased his master and fled away from him, and found his way to the side of Paul…”
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“…Paul in the second chapter reminds the people that physical circumcision is not necessary for those who are spiritually circumcised.”
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“He wants to reach past death for the joy of eternal life with God, but he dearly loves the people of his churches, and he moans that his heart is torn in two: he wants to die, but he wants to live for the good of the churches…”
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“What actually matters is that their nature as outlaws (non-Jewish) has been undone by the work of God, so that they are not foreigners in the Church of Jewish Christians, but fellow citizens and members of God’s household!”
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