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The Second Epistle to Timothy

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Written AD 66
“Paul sent his second epistle to Timothy to Ephesus”
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“The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.”
Printed after 2 Timothy 4:22

Dated by Archbishop James Ussher’s Annals of the World (1658), quoted as printed, whose dates were printed in the margins of King James Bibles for two centuries.

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