69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 11
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 12
1 tn Or “who overcomes.”
2 tn Grk “thus.”
3 tn Or “white robes.”
4 tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mh), the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek.
5 tn Or “will never wipe out.”
6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
7 tn Grk “will confess.”
8 tn Grk “it”; the referent (the beast) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn The prepositional phrase “since the foundation of the world” is traditionally translated as a modifier of the immediately preceding phrase in the Greek text, “the Lamb who was killed” (so also G. B. Caird, Revelation [HNTC], 168), but it is more likely that the phrase “since the foundation of the world” modifies the verb “written” (as translated above). Confirmation of this can be found in Rev 17:8 where the phrase “written in the book of life since the foundation of the world” occurs with no ambiguity.
10 tn Or “slaughtered”; traditionally, “slain.”
11 tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”
12 tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”