translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: These myths were legendary tales characteristic of the false teachers in Ephesus and Crete. See parallels in 1 Tim 1:4; 4:7 ; and Titus 1:14 .


text: The expression I have competed well ( Grk “I have competed the good competition”) uses words that may refer to a race or to a boxing or wrestling match: “run the good race” or “fight the good fight.” The similar phrase in 1 Tim 1:18 uses a military picture and is more literally “war the good warfare.”


text: An allusion to Ps 28:4 .


text: On Prisca and Aquila see also Acts 18:2, 18, 26 ; Rom 16:3-4 ; 1 Cor 16:19 . In the NT “Priscilla” and “Prisca” are the same person. The author of Acts uses the full name Priscilla, while Paul uses the diminutive form Prisca .