¹ tn Or “warned.”

² tn Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”

³ tn Or “warning.” See note at 1:2.

¹ tn Heb “moreover your servant is warned by them.”

¹ tn Or “and his warnings he had given them.”

¹ sn To warn them. The warning would consist of a call to act differently than their dead brother had, or else meet his current terrible fate.

¹ sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.

⁴ sn The expression I sternly warn you means “I charge you as under oath.”

¹ sn The speech closes with a warning, “Watch out,” that also stresses culpability.

¹ tn Grk “will show,” but in this reflective context such a demonstration is a warning or exhortation.

¹ tn Grk “And after warning him, he immediately sent him away and told him.”

² tn Heb “To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may listen?”

⁵ tn The imperfect is preceded by the infinitive absolute to make the warning emphatic.

² sn The saying warns that it is futile and self-defeating to mistreat God’s people, for they survive—the wicked do not. The warning is against a deliberate, planned assault on their places of dwelling.

¹ tn Or “Be on your guard for” (cf. v. 29). Paul completed his responsibility to the Ephesians with this warning.

³ sn The warnings earlier in Jesus’ teaching have led to the question whether only a few will be saved.

⁵ sn Perhaps the servant here speaks to his enemies and warns them that they will self-destruct.

³ sn When divine warnings and appeals become gibberish to the spiritually insensitive, they have no guidance and are doomed to destruction.

¹ tn The literal translation “sons” works well here in view of the warning. Cf. KJV, NAB, NRSV “children.”

¹ sn The psalmist warns his enemies that they need to tremble with fear before God and repudiate their sinful ways.