Here are some hints of the legacy-conserving devices of the Pastoral Letters: • a strong sense of the trans-generational continuity of “the faith.”760 • successors as Paul’s “children in the faith.”761 • crystallized, portable truth: a “good deposit” of “faithful sayings.”762 • institutional structure: the church, God’s household, as “pillar and foundation of the truth.”763 A mechanism for preserving and propagating the crystallized truth of the “faithful sayings.”
