1:80 And the child kept growing 1 and becoming strong 2 in spirit, and he was in the wilderness 3 until the day he was revealed 4 to Israel.
6:10 Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
2:1 And although you were 6 dead 7 in your transgressions and sins,
1 tn This verb is imperfect.
2 tn This verb is also imperfect.
3 tn Or “desert.”
4 tn Grk “until the day of his revealing.”
5 sn A quotation from Exod 20:12 and Deut 5:16.
6 tn The adverbial participle “being” (ὄντας, ontas) is taken concessively.
7 sn Chapter 2 starts off with a participle, although you were dead, that is left dangling. The syntax in Greek for vv. 1-3 constitutes one incomplete sentence, though it seems to have been done intentionally. The dangling participle leaves the readers in suspense while they wait for the solution (in v. 4) to their spiritual dilemma.