{"id":21283,"date":"2013-08-12T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=21283"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:26:44","slug":"answers-27-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/answers-27-42\/","title":{"rendered":"New Testament Warm-Ups: Answers 28-42"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the answers to the New Testament Warm-Up <\/a>questions…<\/p>\n

28. What appears after Thessalonians?<\/strong>
\nThe four letters from St. Paul to individuals: Timothy (x2), Titus and Philemon. The first three of these (and sometimes all four) are commonly known as the “Pastoral Epistles”.<\/p>\n

29. Who was Timothy?<\/strong>
\nTimothy was a constant companion of Paul, recruited during Paul’s 2nd missionary journey (Acts 16:1-3<\/a>). He also traveled with Paul on the subsequent 3rd missionary journey.<\/p>\n

30. What background information do you know about Timothy?<\/strong>
\nHe was from Asia Minor with a Christian Jewish mother (\u201cEunice\u201d<\/em><\/span>) and a Greek (probably Pagan) father (2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15<\/a>). Timothy was the co-sender of six of Paul\u2019s letters (2nd Corinthians, Philippians, Colossians, 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, as well as this letter). Tradition asserts that Timothy was the first bishop of Ephesus and was martyred there as an old man.<\/p>\n

31. Who was Titus?<\/strong>
\nTitus was a companion of Paul. He was a Gentile Christian who traveled with Paul and Barnabas from Antioch to Jerusalem and with Paul on his 3rd missionary journey.<\/p>\n

32. Who was Philemon?<\/strong>
\nPhilemon was man of Paul\u2019s acquaintance. Paul was possibly instrumental in his conversion to the Faith (Philemon 1:19<\/a>) and Philemon was possibly involved in some ministerial capacity (Philemon 1:2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

33. Where did Philemon most likely live?<\/strong>
\nThe letter doesn\u2019t indicate the exact location of Philemon and his family, but it is assumed that they were residents of Colossae or a neighbouring city in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). This assumption is based upon the common belief that the slave mentioned in this letter, Onesimus, is the same man delivering the Letter to the Colossians (Colossians 4:7-9<\/a>).<\/p>\n

34. What is the context of the letter?<\/strong>
\nPaul is sending back to Philemon his slave Onesimus. Additionally, Paul thinks that his captivity will soon be at an end, so he tells Philemon to prepare for his arrival (Philemon 1:22<\/a>).<\/p>\n

35. What was the name of Philemon\u2019s slave?<\/strong>
\nOnesimus<\/p>\n

36. What is the meaning of the slave\u2019s name?<\/strong>
\nHis name means \u201cUseful\u201d or “Benefit”. St. Paul makes a couple of puns on his name in the letter.<\/p>\n

37. What does Paul ask of Philemon?<\/strong>
\nPaul requests that Philemon to forgive his runaway slave Onesimus (Philemon 1:9,17<\/a>)<\/p>\n

38. What book appears after Philemon?<\/strong>
\nThe book of Hebrews.<\/p>\n

39. Why does Hebrews appear here?<\/strong>
\nIt appears at the end of the collection of Paul\u2019s work (the \u201cPauline Corpus\u201d) because of the dispute in the Early Church as to whether or not Paul was its author. Additionally, one would not really call it an epistle.<\/p>\n

40. What literary genre is Hebrews?<\/strong>
\nIt is a sermon.<\/p>\n

41. What is the main theme of the book?<\/strong>
\nIt explains Jesus in terms of the Old Covenant priesthood and sacrificial system.<\/p>\n

42. What did St. Thomas Aquinas think about the authorship of this epistle?<\/strong>
\n\u201cCatholic tradition holds that Luke redacted the final version of the anonymous epistle to the Hebrews on Paul\u2019s behalf, a view endorsed by none other than Saint Thomas Aquinas.\u201d<\/em> – Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAll Questions<\/a><\/p>\n

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Continuing the answers to the New Testament Warm-Up questions… 28. What appears after Thessalonians? The four letters from St. Paul to individuals: Timothy (x2), Titus and Philemon. The first three of these (and sometimes all four) are commonly known as the “Pastoral Epistles”. 29. Who was Timothy? Timothy was a constant companion of Paul, recruited during Paul’s 2nd missionary journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,429,1349,2326,2204,365,1927,2338],"class_list":["post-21283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-hebrews","tag-new-testament","tag-pauls-epistles","tag-philemon","tag-st-thomas-aquinas","tag-timothy","tag-titus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21283"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57752,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions\/57752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}