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Acts 20:24

Context
20:24 But I do not consider my life 1  worth anything 2  to myself, so that 3  I may finish my task 4  and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news 5  of God’s grace.

Revelation 12:11

Context

12:11 But 6  they overcame him

by the blood of the Lamb

and by the word of their testimony,

and they did not love their lives 7  so much that they were afraid to die.

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[20:24]  1 tn Grk “soul.”

[20:24]  2 tn Or “I do not consider my life worth a single word.” According to BDAG 599 s.v. λόγος 1.a.α, “In the textually uncertain pass. Ac 20:24 the text as it stands in N., οὐδενὸς λόγου (v.l. λόγον) ποιοῦμαι τὴν ψυχὴν τιμίαν, may well mean: I do not consider my life worth a single word (cp. λόγου ἄξιον [ἄξιος 1a] and our ‘worth mention’).”

[20:24]  3 tn BDAG 1106 s.v. ὡς 9 describes this use as “a final particle, expressing intention/purpose, with a view to, in order to.”

[20:24]  4 tn Grk “course.” See L&N 42.26, “(a figurative extension of meaning of δρόμος ‘race’) a task or function involving continuity, serious, effort, and possibly obligation – ‘task, mission’…Ac 20:24.” On this Pauline theme see also Phil 1:19-26; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 4:6-7.

[20:24]  5 tn Or “to the gospel.”

[12:11]  6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast.

[12:11]  7 sn They did not love their lives. See Matt 16:25; Luke 17:33; John 12:25.



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