THE CHRISTIAN'S LIFE AS MILITARY SERVICE; AS AN ATHLETIC CONTEST; AS HUSBANDRY 343 CHAPTER XXXI. THE POWER OF A BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION AND THE INCARNATION.--THE GOSPEL OF S. PAUL 353 CHAPTER XXXII. THE NEED OF A SOLEMN CHARGE AGAINST A CONTROVERSIAL SPIRIT, OF A DILIGENCE FREE FROM SHAME, AND OF A HATRED OF THE PROFANITY WHICH WRAPS UP ERROR IN THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH 364 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAST DAYS.--THE BEARING OF THE MENTION OF JANNES AND JAMBRES ON THE QUESTION OF INSPIRATION AND THE ERRORS CURRENT IN EPHESUS 375 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE PERILS OF RATIONALISM AND THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A LIFELONG CONTACT WITH TRUTH.--THE PROPERTIES OF INSPIRED WRITINGS 385 CHAPTER XXXV. THE PARADOXICAL EXULTATION OF THE APOSTLE.--HIS APPARENT FAILURE AND THE APPARENT FAILURE OF THE CHURCH.--THE GREAT TEST OF SINCERITY 397 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE PERSONAL DETAILS A GUARANTEE OF GENUINENESS 406 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE APOSTLE FORSAKEN BY MEN BUT STRENGTHENED BY THE LORD.--THE MISSION TO THE GENTILES COMPLETED.--THE SURE HOPE, AND THE FINAL HYMN OF PRAISE 418 _INTRODUCTORY._ CHAPTER I. _THE CHARACTER AND THE GENUINENESS OF THE PASTORAL EPISTLES._ "Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus."--1 TIM. i; 2 TIM. i. 1. "Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ."--TITUS i. 1. The first question which confronts us on entering upon the study of the Pastoral Epistles is that of their authenticity, which of late has been confidently denied. In reading them are we reading the farewell words of the great Apostle to the ministers of Christ? Or are we reading only the well-meant but far less weighty counsels of one who in a later age assumed the name and imitated the style of St. Paul? It seems necessary to devote the first of these expositions to a discussion of this question.