Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope, 1 Timothy 1:1 NASB Our hope– We tend to pass over opening verses like this one because we have been trained to look for the theologically important applications in Paul’s letters. So we jump fairly quickly to verses like 1:8 and 1:15…
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope; 1 Timothy 1:1 NASB God our savior – In the Greek text (Nestle-Arland 27th Edition), this verse reads kat’ epitagen theos soteros hemon. That is properly translated “according to the command of God…
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our savior, and of Christ Jesus, who is our hope; 1 Timothy 1:1 NASB According to the commandment of – In the Greek text, this phrase is the translation of kat’ epitagen. It means a bit more than something God wants. The preposition…
