Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Rev 3:1) | 3 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Rev 3:7) | 3 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Rev 2:18) | 3 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Rev 2:12) | 3 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Rev 2:8) | 3 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1. |
| (0.30) | (Jud 1:23) | 4 sn The imagery here suggests that the things close to the sinners are contaminated by them, presumably during the process of sinning. |
| (0.30) | (Jud 1:18) | 3 sn Jude cites 2 Pet 3:3, changing a few of the words among other things, cleaning up the syntax, conforming it to Hellenistic style. |
| (0.30) | (2Jo 1:12) | 3 sn Presumably the author means he would rather say the additional things he wants to say to the recipients in person rather than by letter (with paper and ink). |
| (0.30) | (2Pe 3:5) | 2 tn The word order in Greek places “the word of God” at the end of the sentence. See discussion in the note on “these things” in v. 6. |
| (0.30) | (Heb 11:3) | 3 sn The Greek phrasing emphasizes this point by negating the opposite: “so that what is seen did not come into being from things that are visible.” |
| (0.30) | (2Ti 1:14) | 1 sn That good thing (Grk “the good deposit”) refers to the truth of the gospel committed to Timothy (cf. 1 Tim 6:20). |
| (0.30) | (Col 3:8) | 1 tn The Greek article with τὰ πάντα (ta panta) is anaphoric, referring to the previous list of vices, and has been translated here as “all such things.” |
| (0.30) | (Phi 3:19) | 1 tn Grk “whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and glory is their shame, these who think of earthly things.” |
| (0.30) | (Gal 4:3) | 2 tn Or “basic principles,” “elemental things,” or “elemental spirits.” Some interpreters take this as a reference to supernatural powers who controlled nature and/or human fate. |
| (0.30) | (Gal 3:10) | 2 tn Grk “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them.” |
| (0.30) | (Gal 3:12) | 2 tn Grk “who does these things”; the referent (the works of the law, see 3:5) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (1Co 11:14) | 1 sn Paul does not mean nature in the sense of “the natural world” or “Mother Nature.” It denotes “the way things are” because of God’s design. |
| (0.30) | (Rom 12:6) | 1 tn This word comes from the same root as “grace” in the following clause; it means “things graciously given,” “grace-gifts.” |
| (0.30) | (Act 26:6) | 1 tn BDAG 568 s.v. κρίνω 5.a.α has “κρίνεσθαι ἐπί τινι be on trial because of a thing Ac 26:6.” |
| (0.30) | (Act 24:8) | 3 tn Grk “about all these things of which we are accusing him.” This has been simplified to eliminate the relative pronoun (“of which”) in the translation. |
