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28. argues that the first term “pastor” is a subset of the second, “teacher,” since similar formations are well attested in many other adjective and noun constructions. (“The Semantic Range of the Article-Noun-Kai-Noun Plural Construction in the New Testament,” Grace Theological Journal 4 [Spring, 1983]: 59-84). For a thorough defense of the three-office view see, Order in the Oflices: Essays Defining the Roles of Church Ofiicers, ed. Mark R. Brown (Duncansville: Classic Presbyterian Government Resources, 1993). Huther, Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, p. 181. William Hendriksen, Exposition ofthe Pastoral Epistles, New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1957), pp. 179,180. 31. R.C.H. Lenski, The Interpretation ofSt. Paul ’s Epistles to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus and to Philemon (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1964), p. 680. 32. John Calvin, The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, and the Epistles to Timothy, Titus and Philemon, trans. T.A. Smail, ed. D.W. and TE Torrance (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964), p. 261. 33. A.J. Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, 6 vols., vol. 42 Survivors’ Pact (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1984), p. 289. 34. Knight, The Pastoral Epistles, p. 235. 35. Knight, The Pastoral Epistles, p. 236. 36. See Elinor Burkett and Frank Bruni, A Gospel ofShame: Children, Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church (New York: Viking, 1993). 37. .1. Carl Laney, A Guide to Church Discipline (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1985), p. 124. 38. Lenski, The Interpretation ofSt. Paul ’3 Epistles to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, and to Philemon, p. 691. 39. Simpson, Pastoral Epistles, p. 80. 40. Lenski, The Interpretation ofSt. Paul ’s Epistles to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, and to Philemon, p. 691,692. l. R.J. Knowling, “Acts of the Apostles,” in The Expositor’s Greek Testa ments, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, 5 vols. (1900-10; repr. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976), 2: 169. 2. F.J.A. Hort, The Christian Ecclesia (1897; repr. ed. London: Macmillan, 1914), p. 176. 3. RF. Bruce, The Letters ofPaul: An Expanded Paraphrase (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), p. 291. 4. John Calvin, The Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, and the Chapter 10 29. 30.

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