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1 Timothy 1:3

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As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

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Verse 3. Not to teach otherwise; [2] that is than what I taught them. Witham.—The distinctive mark of a heretic, is the teaching differently from that which they found generally taught and believed in the unity of the Catholic Church before their time. The Greek word admirably expresses this; ετεροδιδασκαλειν. Had Luther and the other original reformers attended to this, the peace of the Church would not have been so disturbed.

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