2 Corinthians 8:1
Completing the Collection for the Saints
8:1 Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, 1 the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,
2 Corinthians 8:24
8:24 Therefore show 2 them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you. 3
2 Corinthians 11:28
11:28 Apart from other things, 4 there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern 5 for all the churches.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:8.
2 tc The sense of this translation is attested by the fact that most of the later mss, along with several early and important ones (א C D2 Ψ 0225 0243 1739 1881 Ï lat), have the imperative verb ἐνδείξασθε (ejndeixasqe) in place of the participle ἐνδεικνύμενοι (endeiknumenoi), which is found in B D* F G 33 pc. Since an imperatival participle is more Hebraic in style, many scribes would not have understood the idiom as easily and would have been likely to change the participle to an imperative (so TCGNT 513-14). But there is no good reason why scribes would change the imperative into a participle. Thus, ἐνδεικνύμενοι is almost surely the wording of the original text.
tn In the Greek text ἐνδεικνύμενοι (endeiknumenoi) is a present participle which is translated as an imperative verb (see BDF §468; ExSyn 650-52).
3 tn Or “our boasting about you.”
4 sn Apart from other things. Paul refers here either (1) to the external sufferings just mentioned, or (2) he refers to other things he has left unmentioned.
5 tn “Anxious concern,” so translated in L&N 25.224.