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The Second Epistle to Timothy
Epistle · About AD 66
The Years
- Written AD 66
- “Paul sent his second epistle to Timothy to Ephesus”
- The Subscription
- “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.