25:41 “Then he will say 1 to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
33:14 Sinners are afraid in Zion;
panic 2 grips the godless. 3
They say, 4 ‘Who among us can coexist with destructive fire?
Who among us can coexist with unquenchable 5 fire?’
1:8 Now 17 while Zechariah 18 was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty, 19 1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, 20 to enter 21 the holy place 22 of the Lord and burn incense.
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated.
2 tn Or “trembling” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “shake with fear.”
3 tn Or “the defiled”; TEV “The sinful people of Zion”; NLT “The sinners in Jerusalem.”
4 tn The words “they say” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
5 tn Or “perpetual”; or “everlasting” (KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).
6 tc The earliest
7 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous actions in the narrative.
8 tn Grk “calling out he said”; this is redundant in contemporary English style and has been simplified to “he called out.”
9 sn The rich man had not helped Lazarus before, when he lay outside his gate (v. 2), but he knew him well enough to know his name. This is why the use of the name Lazarus in the parable is significant. (The rich man’s name, on the other hand, is not mentioned, because it is not significant for the point of the story.)
10 sn The dipping of the tip of his finger in water is evocative of thirst. The thirsty are in need of God’s presence (Ps 42:1-2; Isa 5:13). The imagery suggests the rich man is now separated from the presence of God.
11 tn Or “in terrible pain” (L&N 24.92).
12 sn Fire in this context is OT imagery; see Isa 66:24.
13 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the reports the man received about his manager.
14 tn Grk “him”; the referent (the manager) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
15 sn Although phrased as a question, the charges were believed by the owner, as his dismissal of the manager implies.
16 tn Or “stewardship”; the Greek word οἰκονομία (oikonomia) is cognate with the noun for the manager (οἰκονόμος, oikonomo").
17 tn Grk “Now it happened that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
18 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Grk “serving as priest in the order of his division before God.”
20 tn Grk “according to the custom of the priesthood it fell to him by lot.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation to make it clear that the prepositional phrase κατὰ τὸ ἔθος τῆς ἱερατείας (kata to eqo" th" Jierateia", “according to the custom of the priesthood”) modifies the phrase “it fell to him by lot” rather than the preceding clause.
21 tn This is an aorist participle and is temporally related to the offering of incense, not to when the lot fell.
22 tn Or “temple.” Such sacrifices, which included the burning of incense, would have occurred in the holy place according to the Mishnah (m. Tamid 1.2; 3.1; 5-7). A priest would have given this sacrifice, which was offered for the nation, once in one’s career. It would be offered either at 9 a.m. or 3 p.m., since it was made twice a day.
23 tn Grk “he himself.”
24 tn The Greek word for “anger” here is θυμός (qumos), a wordplay on the “passion” (θυμός) of the personified city of Babylon in 14:8.
25 tn Traditionally, “brimstone.”
26 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
27 tn The word “name” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.
28 tn Grk “he”; the pronoun has been intensified by translating as “that person.”
29 tn On the term φαρμακεία (farmakeia, “magic spells”) see L&N 53.100: “the use of magic, often involving drugs and the casting of spells upon people – ‘to practice magic, to cast spells upon, to engage in sorcery, magic, sorcery.’ φαρμακεία: ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ‘with your magic spells you deceived all the peoples (of the world)’ Re 18:23.”
30 tn Grk “idolaters.”
31 tn Grk “their share.”
32 tn Traditionally, “brimstone.”
33 tn Grk “sulfur, which is.” The relative pronoun has been translated as “that” to indicate its connection to the previous clause. The nearest logical antecedent is “the lake [that burns with fire and sulfur],” although “lake” (λίμνη, limnh) is feminine gender, while the pronoun “which” (ὅ, Jo) is neuter gender. This means that (1) the proper antecedent could be “their place” (Grk “their share,”) agreeing with the relative pronoun in number and gender, or (2) the neuter pronoun still has as its antecedent the feminine noun “lake,” since agreement in gender between pronoun and antecedent was not always maintained, with an explanatory phrase occurring with a neuter pronoun regardless of the case of the antecedent. In favor of the latter explanation is Rev 20:14, where the phrase “the lake of fire” is in apposition to the phrase “the second death.”