Footnotes

1. 1 Timothy 1:1 The majority of Paul’s Letters were sent to Churches, but four were addressed to individuals: Timothy (two Letters), Titus, and Philemon. Titus and Timothy were not apostles but evangelists (see 2 Tim 4:5). Timothy (whose father was Greek and his mother a Jewish Christian) had been converted by Paul’s preaching (see Acts 16:1-3) and so was Paul’s “loyal child in the faith.”
2. 1 Timothy 1:1 Savior: this title, given to both the Father and Jesus, is characteristic of the later Letters of Paul, perhaps in reaction to the pagan environment in which the gods were “saviors” and the emperor was worshiped as a god. Jesus our hope is one of Paul’s finest descriptions.