Timothy

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(honoring God). Son of Eunice, a Jewess, by a Gentile father. Born in Derbe or Lystra, Lycaonia (Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5). Converted by Paul and became a close friend and valuable assistant (Rom. 16:21; Heb. 13:23). Recipient of two of Paul’s epistles, 15th and 16th N. T. books. The first was written to him while at Ephesus, probably from Macedonia, and about A. D. 65. The second seems to have been written from Rome some three years later. They are called pastoral epistles, because devoted to description of church work and earnest exhortation to faithfulness.