Text -- Acts 20:27 (NET)

20:27 For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 20:27

¹ tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”

² tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”

³ tn Or “plan.”