The three pastoral letters or epistles are books of 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 letters from Paul the Apostle to Timothy and to Titus. They are generally discussed as a group (sometimes with the addition of the Epistle to Philemon) and are given the title pastoral because they are addressed to individuals with pastoral oversight of churches and discuss issues of Christian living, doctrine and leadership. While the title is not technically quite correct in that the Epistles do not deal with pastoral duties in the sense of the cure of souls, yet it is popularly appropriate as denoting the essentially practical nature of the subject matter as distinguished from the other Epistles attributed to Paul. The term "pastorals" was popularised in 1703 by D. N. Berdot and in 1726 by Paul Anton.

Place Names


Some 10 place names appear in the pastorals, four areas and six cities.
These are

1. Macedonia (1 Tim 1:3)
2. Ephesus (1 Tim 1:3, 2 Tim 1:18, 4:12)
3. Thessalonica, Galatia and Dalmatia (2 Tim 4:10)
4. Troas (2 Tim 4:13)
5. Corinth and Miletus (2 Tim 4:20)
6. Crete (Tit 1:5, 16)
7. Nicopolis (Tit 3:12)
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