1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions 1 with the oil of rejoicing.” 2
“What is man that you think of him 3 or the son of man that you care for him?
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
13:22 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, 8 bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly. 13:23 You should know that 9 our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon, he will be with me when I see you. 10
1 sn God…has anointed you over your companions. God’s anointing gives the son a superior position and authority over his fellows.
2 sn A quotation from Ps 45:6-7.
3 tn Grk “remember him.”
4 tn Grk “you are without discipline.”
5 tn Grk “all”; “sons” is implied by the context.
6 tn Grk “as being imprisoned together.”
7 tn Or “since you too are vulnerable”; Grk “you also being in the body.”
8 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
9 tn Grk “Know that” (an imperative).
10 tn Grk “has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.”