Paul's Missionary Journeys - Part 4
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (Part one)
Copied from the sermon notes of Pastor Don Elmore
April 13, 2025
Scripture Reading: 2 Timothy 3:15-16:
What were the “holy scriptures” that Timothy learned from his mother, Eunice, along with his grandmother, Lois, that made him wise unto salvation (2 Timothy 1:5)? It was probably the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It was written by seventy-two Judeans who translated it at the request of the Egyptian Pharaoh for the library at Alexander in Egypt, several centuries BC.
Timothy grew up in Asia Minor at a time when the New Testament era was in its infancy – there was no such thing as New Testament books yet. It wasn’t compiled until 367 A.D., when Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt gave a list of books that form the modern twenty-seven books of the New Testament.