The Background to “Fight the Good Fight” in 1 Timothy 1:18, 6:12, and 2 Timothy 4:7
Published in Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
The combined wording in 1 Tim 1:18 of στρατεύω + στρατεία can be rendered in English “fight the fight,” “battle the battle,” or more generally “perform military service” or “serve in a military campaign.” The combination surprizingly occurs often throughout Greco-Roman literature to express a patriotic warfare idiom for good character revealed by p...
