translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.


text: Grk “for the promise…” or possibly “in accordance with the promise…”


text: Grk “from my ancestors.”


text: Or “as I do constantly. By night and day I long to see you…”


text: Grk “longing to see you, remembering your tears” (as a continuation of the preceding clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Grk “recalling” (as a continuation of the preceding clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Grk “the sincere faith in you.”


text: Or “convinced.”


text: Grk “that is in you.”


text: Or “a spirit,” denoting the human personality under the Spirit’s influence as in 1 Cor 4:21 ; Gal 6:1 ; 1 Pet 3:4 . But the reference to the Holy Spirit at the end of this section ( 1:14 ) makes it likely that it begins this way also, so that the Holy Spirit is the referent.


text: Grk “the testimony of our Lord.”


text: Or “according to.”


text: Grk “suffer hardship together,” implying “join with me in suffering.”


text: More literally, “who saved us,” as a description of God in v. 8 . Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Or “according to,” or “by.”


text: Grk “before eternal times.”


text: Grk “having broken…and having brought…” (describing Christ). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here (and at the beginning of v. 11 ) in the translation.


text: Grk “for which.”


text: C D F G Ψ 1739 1881 Ï latt sy co) have ἐθνῶν ( eqnwn , “of the Gentiles”) after “teacher.” The shorter reading has poorer external credentials ( א * A I 1175 pc ), but is preferred because ἐθνῶν probably represents a gloss added by copyists familiar with 1 Tim 2:7 . There is no easy explanation for the omission of the word if it were original here.


text: Grk “suffer these things.”


text: Or “in whom I have believed.”


text: Or “pattern.”


text: Grk “in faith and love in Christ Jesus.” sn With the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. This describes the manner in which Timothy must hold to the standard (similar to Paul’s call for him to give attention to his life and his teaching in 1 Tim 4:11-16 ).


text: Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.


text: Grk “my chain.”


text: For location see JP4-A1 .


text: Grk “all the ways he served in Ephesus.” map For location see JP1-D2 ; JP2-D2 ; JP3-D2 ; JP4-D2 .