Brilliant Anglican Patristic scholar, J.N.D. Kelly sums up Pauls exhortation from 1 Timothy 1:3-5 The ultimate object of Paul’s charge, as of all Christian moral preaching, is not merely negative. If its initial purpose is to check error, it has the further and more positive aim of establishing love in the Ephesian congregation in place of the spirit of contentiousness which the errorists have sown there. This mutual charity can only spring from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith. from Kelly, J. N. D. (1963). The Pastoral Epistles (p. 46). London: Continuum. Ill be preaching on this passage at Caleb Cangelosis installation service tonight
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