The Expositor's Bible

The Pastoral Epistles

Alfred Plummer, Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir,

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9700000039628
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Bibles

Excerpt e, and was put to death at the end of that imprisonment, then these three letters were not written by him. (1) The Epistles stand or fall together: they are all three genuine, or all three spurious. We must either with the scholars of the Early Church, of the Middle Ages, and of the Renaissance, whether Roman or Protestant, and with a clear majority of modern critics, [4] accept all three letters; or else with Marcion, Basilides, Eichhorn, Bauer, and their followers, [5] reject all three. As Credner himself had to acknowledge, after having at first advocated the theory, it is impossible to follow Tatian in retaining Titus as apostolic, while repudiating the other two as forgeries. Nor have the two scholars[6] who originated the modern controversy found more than one critic of eminence to accept their conclusion that both Titus and 2 Timothy are genuine, but 1 Timothy not. Yet another suggestion is made by Reuss, that 2 Timothy is unquestionably genuine, while the other two are doubtful. And lastly we ha