but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
"That the false teachers were . . . probably elders [of the house-churches in Ephesus] is supported by several items from 1 Timothy: their presuming to be ’teachers of the law’ (1 Timothy 1:7), a responsibility of the elders (1 Timothy 5:17; cf. 1 Timothy 3:2); the fact that two are named and excommunicated by Paul (1 Timothy 1:19-20), not by the church as in 2 Thessalonians 3:14 and 1 Corinthians 5:1-5; and the repeated concern about elders in this letter, both as to their qualifications-with no mention of duties-in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and their discipline and apparent replacement in 1 Timothy 5:19-25." [Note: Ibid., p. 40.] 