4:12 Dear friends, do not be astonished 1 that a trial by fire is occurring among you, 2 as though something strange were happening to you.
1 tn Or “do not be surprised, taken aback.” The same verb occurs in 4:4.
2 tn Grk “at the burning among you, occurring to you for testing.”
3 tn The verb is implied by the context but not expressed; Grk “but if as a Christian.”
4 tn These are third-person imperatives in Greek (“if [one of you suffers] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed…let him glorify”), but have been translated as second-person verbs since this is smoother English idiom.
5 tn Grk “in this name.”