Produced by Marcia Brooks, Colin Bell, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes Greek and other characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, e.g. διδαχή. If any of these characters do not display properly, make sure your text reader's "character set" or "file encoding" is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) version of this text instead, in which the Greek words have been transliterated. _Italic words_ in the original have been enclosed in underscores in this version. A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. Some inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. The Table of Contents and Index refer to original page numbers.] THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE. EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., _Editor of "The Expositor."_ THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. BY THE REV. ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D. TORONTO: WILLARD TRACT DEPOSITORY AND BIBLE DEPÔT, CORNER OF YONGE AND TEMPERANCE STREETS. 1888. THE PASTORAL EPISTLES. BY THE REV. ALFRED PLUMMER, M.A., D.D., _Master of University College, Durham; formerly Fellow and Senior Tutor of Trinity College, Oxford; Author of "The Church of the Early Fathers," and Editor of "The Gospel and Epistles of St. John," etc._ TORONTO: WILLARD TRACT DEPOSITORY AND BIBLE DEPÔT, CORNER OF YONGE AND TEMPERANCE STREETS. 1888. CONTENTS. PAGE _INTRODUCTORY._ CHAPTER I. THE CHARACTER AND THE GENUINENESS OF THE PASTORAL EPISTLES 3 _1 TIMOTHY._ CHAPTER II. TIMOTHY THE BELOVED DISCIPLE OF S. PAUL.--HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER 19 CHAPTER III. THE DOCTRINE CONDEMNED IN THE PASTORAL EPISTLES A JEWISH FORM OF GNOSTICISM.--THE GNOSTIC'S PROBLEM 32 CHAPTER IV. THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE GNOSTICS.--ITS MODERN COUNTERPART 42 CHAPTER V. THE LORD'S COMPASSION IN ENABLING A BLASPHEMER AND A PERSECUTOR TO BECOME A SERVANT OF CHRIST JESUS AND A PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL 52 CHAPTER VI. THE PROPHECIES ON TIMOTHY.--THE PROPHETS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AN EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUMENT OF EDIFICATION 62 CHAPTER VII. THE PUNISHMENT OF HYMENÆUS AND ALEXANDER.--DELIVERING TO SATAN AN EXCEPTIONAL INSTRUMENT OF PURIFICATION.--THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN 72 CHAPTER VIII.