5.  The  personal  notices  scattered  throughout  our  epistles
and  the  peculiarity  of  the  relations  there  presupposed,  pre-
sented special  difficulty  against  the  hypothesis  of  spurious-
ness.  Even  the  first  Epistle  to  Timothy  contains  in  i.  20
an  allusion  to  two  men  delivered  unto  Satan ;  and  in  v.  23
a  dietary  prescription  for  Timothy,  of  which  it  would  be
hard  to  say  how  the  pseudonymous  writer  came  to  mention
them.  The  Epistle  to  Titus  transfers  the  Apostle  with  his
ministry  to  Crete,  to  which  place  nothing  in  the  Pauline
epistles  with  which  we  are  familiar  points ;  and  in  iii.  12-14
brings  in  a  number  of  personal  notices  that  have  no  con-
nection whatever  with  its  aim,  and  for  which  the  other
Paulines  do  not  offer  the  smallest  point  of  attachment.  In
this  respect  however,  the  second  Epistle  to  Timothy
presents  most  difficulties.  It  may  of  course  be  said  that  the
names  of  Timothy's  mother  and  grandmother  (i.  5)  or  the
experiences  of  the  Apostle  in  his  imprisonment  (iv.  14-17)
are  borrowed  from  tradition  for  the  purpose  of  giving  life
and  colour  to  the  composition  ;  but  any  such  explanation  is
invalidated  by  the  notices  contained  in  i.  15-18  which  in  their
briefness  of  allusion  are  so  hard  to  understand.  So  too  it
may  be  said  that  in  the  numerous  personal  notices  adduced
(iv.  10-15,  19-21),  the  author  had  in  his  mind  isolated
names  taken  from  the  earlier  epistles,  or  relations  and  situa-
tions known  from  the  Acts,  though  he  must  have  been  very
shortsighted  not  to  see  the  contradictions  in  which  the  use
of  them  would  involve  him ;  but  side  by  side  with  familiar
names  we  find  others  that  are  quite  unknown,  side  by  side
with  combinations  that  are  natural  to  say  the  least,  others

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