² tn Grk “but the body of Christ.” The term body here, when used in contrast to shadow (σκιά, skia) indicates the opposite meaning, i.e., the reality or substance itself.

¹ sn The expression the tent we live in refers to “our earthly house, our body.” Paul uses the metaphor of the physical body as a house or tent, the residence of the immaterial part of a person.

¹ tn Or “sea.” The Greek word indicates a rather large body of water, but the English word “sea” normally indicates very large bodies of water, so the word “lake” in English is a closer approximation.

⁴ sn There may be a conscious effort by the sage to contrast “soul” and “body”: He contrasts the benefits of kindness for the “soul” (translated “himself”) with the trouble that comes to the “flesh/body” (translated “himself”) of the cruel.

² tn The translation reflects the Hebrew wordplay “your corpses…the corpses of your idols.” Since idols, being lifeless, do not really have “corpses,” the translation uses “dead bodies” for people and “lifeless bodies” for the idols.

¹ tn Heb “And the one who touches in the flesh.” In this instance, “flesh” (or “body”) probably refers literally to any part of the body, not the genitals specifically (see the discussion in J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:914).

² tn Or “myrrh,” a strong aromatic ointment often used to prepare a body for burial (L&N 6.205).

³ tn Grk “variation or shadow of turning” (referring to the motions of heavenly bodies causing variations of light and darkness).

¹ tn Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).

¹ tn Grk “and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will be, but a bare seed.”

⁴ tn Grk “the whole Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).

⁴ tn Grk “flesh.” See vv. 26b-27. The reference to “body” in this verse picks up the reference to “body” in v. 26. The Greek term σάρξ (sarx) in both verses literally means “flesh”; however, the translation “body” stresses the lack of decay of his physical body. The point of the verse is not merely the lack of decay of his flesh alone, but the resurrection of his entire person, as indicated by the previous parallel line “he was not abandoned to Hades.”

³ tn Or “was covered with ulcers.” The words “whose body” are implied in the context (L&N 23.180).

¹ tn Heb “wounds between your hands.” Cf. NIV “wounds on your body”; KJV makes this more specific: “wounds in thine hands.”

² sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

¹ tn Heb “Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.”

³ tn Heb “they have gone down [into] the dark/inner chambers of the belly”; NASB “of the body.”

² tn Heb “is the life of the flesh” (so KJV, ASV); NAB, NIV “gives life to the body.”

² tn The word “my bones” may be taken as a metonymy of subject, the bony framework indicating the whole body.

¹ tn Heb “your son, the one who came out of your body, he will build the temple for my name.”