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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 1, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 18.

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By Uriah Smith

How shall we understand 1 Tim. iii, 20? Does it conflict with Matt. xviii, 15-18? How extensive is its application? J. BOSTWICK.
On turning to 1 Tim. iii, we do not find but 16 verses in the chapter. The question certainly asks how we shall understand 1 Tim. iii, 20; and yet 1 Tim. iii has only 16 verses. We understand therefore that 1 Tim. iii, 20, has never been written. We give this answer in accordance with 1 Tim. v, 20, which is probably the text you had in mind, misquotations of scripture being, no doubt, one of the things to which that text is applicable. If you should trespass against me, or any misunderstanding of a personal and private nature arise between us, I should, in accordance with Matt. xviii, 15-18, confer with you in regard to it in a less public manner. U. S.