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First and 2 Timothy and Titus are called "Pastoral Epistles"because Paul wrote them to pastors (shepherds) of churches outlining their pastoral duties.4Their main pastoral duties were to defend sound doctrine and to maintain sound discipline.5
"The pastoral Epistles are primarily practical rather than theological. The emphasis lies rather on the defense of doctrine than on its explication or elaboration. The distinctively doctrinal passages comprise only a small part of the whole; Timothy and Titus had already been instructed."6
