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1 | Timothy's age | 2 Tim 2:22 | 00123 | 241340 | ||
Beja, Thanks for your kindness. Let me reiterate the questions, then. Do you (or any other reader) know (1) the year when 2 Timothy was written, (2) the age of Timothy at that time, and (3) whether or not Timothy was like one generation younger than Paul (e.g., Paul calls timothy as my son)? | ||||||
2 | Timothy's age | 2 Tim 2:22 | EdB | 241349 | ||
I know we do not like to speculate here but the most reliable sources tell us Timothy died at Ephesus in 97 AD when he was 80 years old. Timothy was martyred when he tried to stop a pagan ceremony. After he preached the gospel he was beaten, dragged through the city and stoned to death. First Timothy is thought to have been written in the Macedonian stages of Paul's ministry and is commonly dated to be in or around 60-65 AD. If we subtract 63 for 97 we get 34 years. If we then subtract 34 years from Timothy's 80 years we get 46 years. That would make Timothy 46 when Paul wrote First Timothy to him. Second Timothy was written about 4-7 years later so Timothy would be 50 to 53 years of age. Again all dates are approximate but I think there is enough evidence to say Timothy was a mature adult when Paul wrote to him and probably within 17-22 years of Paul's age. Most scholars believe Paul wrote as he did to show he considered Timothy a spiritual son and himself Timothy's spiritual father. Hope this helps. |
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3 | Timothy died at age 80 in 97 AD? | 2 Tim 2:22 | 00123 | 241351 | ||
EdB, Thanks for your reply, which is kind very contradictory to our usual Sunday school teaching in which Timothy is depicted as a boy while Paul as an old man with beard as well as a pastor's sermon, which is not much different from the Sunday school one. By the way, do you know "the" original source of the argument that Timothy was martyred at age 80 in 97 AD? | ||||||
4 | Timothy died at age 80 in 97 AD? | 2 Tim 2:22 | EdB | 241353 | ||
The easiest answer would be for me to say "tradition." In this case tradition may have come from Eusebius: The History of the Church. However I really like the scholarship of Foxes Book of Martyrs and in that book in the Second chapter near the end of the subtopic Second Persecution, it tells of the Timothy's martyrdom. And that is where I gleaned it. |
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