¹ tn Or “evident.”

² tn Or “clear,” “evident.”

¹ tn The participles are evidently conditional, as most translations render them.

¹ tn Grk “that your progress may be evident to all.”

¹ tn Grk “those approved may be evident among you.”

¹ tc Much of the ms evidence for the LXX lacks vv. 17-19.

² tn The idea of eating “your fill” is evident in the context with the use of χορτάζω (chortazō) in v. 21.

¹ tn The “we” in v. 18 is evidently exclusive, that is, it refers to Peter and the other apostles.

¹ tn Or “For.” The Hebrew particle (כִּי, ki) here introduces the evidence that they had no respect for him.

² tc Read with many medieval Hebrew mss, the Qere, and much versional evidence יַד (yad, “hand”) rather than MT יַךְ (yakh).

² sn Make sure of your calling and election. The author is not saying that virtue and holiness produce salvation, but that virtue and holiness are the evidence of salvation.

¹ tn Grk “having,” most likely as an instrumental participle. Thus their present struggle is evidence that they have received the gift of suffering.

³ tn Or “so that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ would not be evident to them” (L&N 28.37).

³ sn Jesus calls the disciples to faith with a gentle rebuke about doubts and a gracious invitation to see for themselves the evidence of his resurrection.

² tn Here the pronoun αὐτόν (auton), referring to Jesus, is in an emphatic position. The one thing they lacked was solid evidence that he was alive.

³ tn Or “bear witness against us,” or “can be used as evidence against us,” to keep the legal metaphor. Heb “testify against.”

¹ sn The fact that Job will dare to come before God and make his case is evidence—to Job at least—that he is innocent.

¹ sn The evidence indicates that Moab was part of the very corrupt Canaanite world, a world that was given over to the fertility ritual of the times.

¹ tn The word עֵד (ʿed) actually means “witness,” but the dead animal that is returned is a silent witness, i.e., evidence. The word is an adverbial accusative.

² tn The Greek reads “scoffers in their scoffing” for “blatant scoffers.” The use of the cognate dative is a Semitism designed to intensify the word it is related to. The idiom is foreign to English. As a Semitism, it is further incidental evidence of the authenticity of the letter (see the note on “Simeon” in 1:1 for other evidence).