3:8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, 7 that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
1 tn The participles are evidently conditional, as most translations render them.
2 tn The participle ὑπάρχοντα (Juparconta) is stronger than the verb εἰμί (eimi), usually implying a permanent state. Hence, the addition of “really” is implied.
3 sn Continually increasing. There are evidently degrees of ownership of these qualities, implying degrees of productivity in one’s intimacy with Christ. An idiomatic rendering of the first part of v. 8 would be “For if you can claim ownership of these virtues in progressively increasing amounts…”
4 tn Grk “cause [you] not to become.”
5 tn Grk “unto,” “toward”; although it is possible to translate the preposition εἰς (eis) as simply “in.”
6 tn Grk “the [rich] knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Verse 8 in Greek does not make a full stop (period), for v. 9 begins with a subordinate relative pronoun. Contemporary English convention requires a full stop in translation, however.
7 tn The same verb, λανθάνω (lanqanw, “escape”) used in v. 5 is found here (there, translated “suppress”).