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Timothy, my true child in faith.
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Timothy, my beloved child.
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(not merely adopted, still less supposititious), and his
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St. Paul tells the Corinthians that as the best means of making them imitators of himself he has sent unto them
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Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every Church (1 Cor. iv. 17). And a few years later he tells the Philippians that he hopes to send Timothy shortly unto them, that he may know how they fare. For he has no one like him, who will have a genuine anxiety about their welfare. The rest care only for their own interests.
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But the proof of him ye know, that, as a child a father, so he slaved with me for the Gospel (ii. 22). Of all whom he ever converted to the faith Timothy seems to have been to St. Paul the disciple who was most beloved and most trusted. Following the example of the fourth Evangelist, Timothy might have called himself
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The disciple whom Paul loved.