Judges 19:5

19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. ¹  But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, ²  then you can go.”

Psalms 26:9

26:9 Do not sweep me away ³  with sinners,

or execute me along with violent people, ⁴ 

John 15:6

15:6 If anyone does not remain ⁵  in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, ⁶  and are burned up. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “and he arose to go.”

² tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”

³ tn Heb “do not gather up my life with.”

⁴ tn Heb “or with men of bloodshed my life.” The verb is supplied; it is understood by ellipsis (see the preceding line).

⁵ tn Or “reside.”

⁶ sn Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire. The author does not tell who it is who does the gathering and throwing into the fire. Although some claim that realized eschatology is so prevalent in the Fourth Gospel that no references to final eschatology appear at all, the fate of these branches seems to point to the opposite. The imagery is almost certainly that of eschatological judgment, and recalls some of the OT vine imagery which involves divine rejection and judgment of disobedient Israel (Ezek 15:4-6, 19:12).

⁷ tn Grk “they gather them up and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”