[3] "The wealth and mobility of the Pauline intellect ... must not be fettered in mode of teaching or expression by a rule taken from a number of older epistles arbitrarily selected."--BERNHARD WEISS, _Introduction to the N. T._, i. p. 410 (Hodder: 1887). [4] Among them Alford, Baumgarten, Beck, Döllinger, Fairbairn, Farrar, Guericke, Herzog, Hofmann, Huther, Kölling, Lange, Lightfoot, Neander, Oosterzee, Otto, Plumptre, Salmon, Schaff, Thiersch, Wace, Wieseler, Wiesinger, Wordsworth. [5] Among them Credner, S. Davidson, Ewald, Hausrath, Hilgenfeld, Holtzmann, Mangold, Schenkel, and on the whole De Wette. [6] Schmidt and Schleiermacher followed by Bleek. [7] Similar admissions, which are quite fatal to the view that the three Epistles are not genuine, are made by Hausrath, Immer and Lemme; while Ewald, Hitzig, Krenkel, and Weisse think that Titus contains authentic fragments. See the exposition of 2 Tim. iv. 9-21. [8] What forger would have thought of the cloak (or book-case) left at Troas with Carpus, or would have been careful to speak only of "the _house_ of Onesiphorus," and not of himself, in two places? [9] _Paul, his Life and Works_, Pt. II., ch. viii. Eng. Trans., p. 105. [10] It cannot possibly mean Rome; least of all in a document written in Rome. Rome was a centre, not a frontier. _THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY._ CHAPTER II. _TIMOTHY THE BELOVED DISCIPLE OF ST. PAUL. HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER._ "Timothy, my true child in faith."--1 TIM. i. 2. "Timothy, my beloved child."--2 TIM. i. 2.