15:30 “‘But the person 1 who acts defiantly, 2 whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults 3 the Lord. 4 That person 5 must be cut off 6 from among his people.
11:9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, 7
and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.
Follow the impulses 8 of your heart and the desires 9 of your eyes,
but know that God will judge your motives and actions. 10
4:17 So I say this, and insist 16 in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility 17 of their thinking. 18
1 tn Heb “soul.”
2 tn The sin is described literally as acting “with a high hand” – בְּיָד רָמָה (bÿyad ramah). The expression means that someone would do something with deliberate defiance, with an arrogance in spite of what the
3 tn The verb occurs only in the Piel; it means “to blaspheme,” “to revile.”
4 tn The word order in the Hebrew text places “Yahweh” first for emphasis – it is the
5 tn Heb “soul.”
6 tn The clause begins with “and” because the verb is the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. As discussed with Num 9:13, to be cut off could mean excommunication from the community, death by the community, or death by divine intervention.
7 tn Heb “in your youth”; or “in your childhood.”
8 tn Heb “walk in the ways of your heart.”
9 tn Heb “the sight.”
10 tn Heb “and know that concerning all these God will bring you into judgment.” The point is not that following one’s impulses and desires is inherently bad and will bring condemnation from God. Rather the point seems to be: As you follow your impulses and desires, realize that all you think and do will eventually be evaluated by God. So one must seek joy within the boundaries of God’s moral standards.
11 tn Grk “heart.”
12 tn Grk “the gospel of God, which he promised.” Because of the length and complexity of this sentence in Greek, it was divided into shorter English sentences in keeping with contemporary English style. To indicate the referent of the relative pronoun (“which”), the word “gospel” was repeated at the beginning of v. 2.
13 tn Col 1:3-8 form one long sentence in the Greek text and have been divided at the end of v. 4 and v. 6 and within v. 6 for clarity, in keeping with the tendency in contemporary English toward shorter sentences. Thus the phrase “Your faith and love have arisen from the hope” is literally “because of the hope.” The perfect tense “have arisen” was chosen in the English to reflect the fact that the recipients of the letter had acquired this hope at conversion in the past, but that it still remains and motivates them to trust in Christ and to love one another.
14 tn BDAG 113 s.v. ἀπόκειμαι 2 renders ἀποκειμένην (apokeimenhn) with the expression “reserved” in this verse.
15 tn The term “the gospel” (τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, tou euangeliou) is in apposition to “the word of truth” (τῷ λόγῳ τῆς ἀληθείας, tw logw th" alhqeia") as indicated in the translation.
16 tn On the translation of μαρτύρομαι (marturomai) as “insist” see BDAG 619 s.v. 2.
17 tn On the translation of ματαιότης (mataioth") as “futility” see BDAG 621 s.v.
18 tn Or “thoughts,” “mind.”