1 Timotius 1:3-4
Konteks1:3 As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus 1 to instruct 2 certain people not to spread false teachings, 3 1:4 nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. 4 Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan 5 that operates by faith.
1 Timotius 1:18-19
Konteks1:18 I put this charge 6 before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, 7 in order that with such encouragement 8 you may fight the good fight. 1:19 To do this 9 you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
1 Timotius 4:1-3
Konteks4:1 Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves 10 with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings, 11 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars 12 whose consciences are seared. 13 4:3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
[1:3] 1 map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.
[1:3] 2 tn This word implies authoritative instruction: “direct, command, give orders” (cf. 1 Tim 4:11; 5:7; 6:13, 17). See BDAG 760 s.v. παραγγέλλω.
[1:3] 3 tn Grk “to teach other doctrines,” different from apostolic teaching (cf. 1 Tim 6:3).
[1:4] 4 sn Myths and interminable genealogies. These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 4:7; 2 Tim 4:4; and Titus 1:14. They were perhaps built by speculation from the patriarchal narratives in the OT; hence the connection with genealogies and with wanting to be teachers of the law (v. 7).
[1:4] 5 tc A few Western
[1:4] tn More literally, “the administration of God that is by faith.”
[1:4] sn God’s redemptive plan. The basic word (οἰκονομία, oikonomia) denotes the work of a household steward or manager or the arrangement under which he works: “household management.” As a theological term it is used of the order or arrangement by which God brings redemption through Christ (God’s “dispensation, plan of salvation” [Eph 1:10; 3:9]) or of human responsibility to pass on the message of that salvation (“stewardship, commission” [1 Cor 9:17; Eph 3:2; Col 1:25]). Here the former is in view (see the summary of God’s plan in 1 Tim 2:3-6; 2 Tim 1:9-10; Titus 3:4-7), and Paul notes the response people must make to God’s arrangement: It is “in faith” or “by faith.”
[1:18] 6 sn This charge refers to the task Paul described to Timothy in vv. 3-7 above.
[1:18] 7 sn The prophecies once spoken about you were apparently spoken at Timothy’s ordination (cf. 1 Tim 4:14) and perhaps spoke of what God would do through him. Thus they can encourage him in his work, as the next clause says.
[1:18] 8 tn Grk “that by them you might fight…” (a reference to the prophecies which can encourage him in his work).
[1:19] 9 tn In Greek this continues the same sentence from v. 18, a participle showing the means by which Timothy will accomplish his task: Grk “fight the good fight, holding firmly…”
[4:1] 10 tn Or “desert the faith by occupying themselves.”
[4:1] 11 tn Grk “teachings of demons” (speaking of the source of these doctrines).
[4:2] 12 tn Grk “in the hypocrisy of liars.”
[4:2] 13 tn Or “branded.” The Greek verb καυστηριάζω (kausthriazw) can be used to refer either to the cause (“brand”) or the effect (“seared”).
[4:2] sn Consciences are seared. The precise meaning of this phrase is somewhat debated. Three primary interpretations are (1) the consciences of these false teachers are “branded” with Satan’s mark to indicate ownership, (2) their consciences are “branded” with a penal mark to show they are lawbreakers, or (3) their consciences have been “seared” (i.e., totally burnt and desensitized) so that they are unable to notice the difference between right and wrong. See G. W. Knight, Pastoral Epistles (NIGTC), 189.
