“Prescribe and teach these things”: The things just mentioned and what follows. The term “prescribe” means to order, command and charge and is in the present tense, to continual to do so. Compare with 1 Timothy 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:13 and 17. The preacher needs to preach the word of God with authority (Titus 2:15).

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Old Testament