Charis

Thank you Don, that helps 🙂
So the “teaching unit” in this case would be the entire letter of 1Tim, and “deversify” = take out the chapters and verses beause they weren’t in the original.

Don said:
Note that one may be a great exegete and a terrible applier or vice versa; this idea is to be both. And of course, use all the help you can get.

The above quote is reminiscent of Jesus when He said:

MT 23:1 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: [2] “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. [3] So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach…