Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics (53 page)

This is the same writer, as shown by numerous words, phrases, and ideas, found in these two books but nowhere else in the Pauline corpus.
is found in 1 Tim. 2:6 and Tit. 1:3, but never in Paul. Christ as an
(1 Tim. 2:6) is matched by the verbal form
in Tit. 2:14; the root never occurs in Paul. The phrase
of 1 Tim. 6:1 is paralleled in Titus 2:9, but never in Paul. It should not be objected that this is because Paul does not have a Haustafel, since that is precisely the problem: Haustafeln are notably absent from the Pauline letters. In the same context, the warrant
…
of 1 Tim. 6:1 is found as
in Titus 2:5. Elsewhere the instruction concerning the bishop,
1 Tim. 3:2 is closely paralleled by the
(Tit. 1:7), particularly striking in view of the fact that the term
itself is so rare in the New Testament (only Phil. 1:1 in Paul).

The opponents of the author in both letters are teachers of the Law (1 Tim. 1:7; Tit. 1:10, 14; 3:9) who are interested in “genealogies” (1 Tim. 1:4; Tit. 3:9—the only two occurrences of the word in the New Testament), that involve
(1 Tim. 6:4; Tit. 3:9) and
(1 Tim. 6:4; Tit. 3:9; apart from 2 Tim. 2:23 the latter word never occurs in Paul).