
Phillips, Richard & Doriani, Dan
Description
1 & 2 Timothy and Titus is the last commentary written by Patrick Fairbairn, but his first on any of the books of the New Testament, and is now part of the Geneva Series of Commentaries.
It grew out of Fairbairn’s lectures on pastoral theology to students at the Free Church College, Glasgow, where he served both as Principal and as Professor of Divinity. His purposes in publishing his material were twofold; to benefit students of the Bible, especially ministers and ministerial students, in their grasp and application of the text, and to defend the divine inspiration and apostolic authority of 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus against attacks made by contemporary scholarship. In both aims he succeeds admirably.
Contents
Introduction
Section I.—The Authorship of the Epistles
II.—Times and Places of Writing
III.—Notices of Timothy
IV.—Notices of Titus
Text and Translation of First Timothy
Text and Translation of Titus
Text and Translation of Second Timothy
Expository Notes on First Timothy
Expository Notes on Titus
Expository Notes on Second Timothy
Appendix A.—The Peculiar Testimony for Gospel Times
Appendix B.—The Meaning of the Expression,"Husband of One Wife," in 1 Tim. III, Etc.
Appendix C.—The Treatment of Slavery in New Testament Scripture
Note of 1 Cor. VII 21
About the Author
Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74) was one of the outstanding galaxy of biblical scholars and theologians who adorned the first days of the Free Church of Scotland following the Disruption of 1843. He combined extensive experience of pastoral work with many years of well-regulated and exacting study of Scripture and the disciplines ancillary to its interpretation. Indeed, from the outset of his ministry he determined to be obedient to the apostolic exhortation to be ‘a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth’.