The series closes with a full Biblical-Theological pass through 1 Timothy 2:1-15, returning to why the pastoral epistles matter as much as they’ve argued all along. Christ’s own finality is what actually fulfills the Old Testament’s inadequacies rather than supplying a new set of rules for the New Testament church. What remains, in the end, is peace between men and women inside that one church.
Theological liberals have long disdained the pastoral epistles, and even the orthodox have defended them weakly, with Machen and Meredith Kline as notable exceptions. 1 Timothy 3 shows why that neglect is a mistake. The plain exhortation is to read these letters.