Pastoral epistles

Common card · No. 455326

The pastoral epistles consist of three epistles from the canonical New Testament: the First Epistle to Timothy (1 Timothy), the Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy), and the Epistle to Titus. They are presented as letters from Paul the Apostle to Timothy and to Titus, but many scholars believe that they were written after the death of Paul. These three epistles are generally addressed as one group, their title "pastoral" having been popularized in 1703 by D. N. Berdot and in 1726 by Paul Anton, though alternative nomenclature for the three has been proposed: "Corpus Pastorale", intended to highlight that they comprise a three-part corpus of forged letters, and "Letters to Timothy and Titus", emphasizing the individuality of the letters and their intended recipients.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Rembrandt, Public domain