Acts 20:27

20:27 For I did not hold back from ¹  announcing ²  to you the whole purpose ³  of God.

Ephesians 1:11

1:11 In Christ ⁴  we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, ⁵  since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

[20:27]  ¹ tn Or “did not avoid.” BDAG 1041 s.v. ὑποστέλλω 2.b has “shrink from, avoid implying fear…οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ ἀναγγεῖλαι I did not shrink from proclaiming Ac 20:27”; L&N 13.160 has “to hold oneself back from doing something, with the implication of some fearful concern – ‘to hold back from, to shrink from, to avoid’…‘for I have not held back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God’ Ac 20:27.”

[20:27]  ² tn Or “proclaiming,” “declaring.”

[20:27]  ³ tn Or “plan.”

[1:11]  ⁴ tn Grk “in whom,” as a continuation of the previous verse.

[1:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “we were appointed by lot.” The notion of the verb κληρόω (klhrow) in the OT was to “appoint a portion by lot” (the more frequent cognate verb κληρονομέω [klhronomew] meant “obtain a portion by lot”). In the passive, as here, the idea is that “we were appointed [as a portion] by lot” (BDAG 548 s.v. κληρόω 1). The words “God’s own” have been supplied in the translation to clarify this sense of the verb. An alternative interpretation is that believers receive a portion as an inheritance: “In Christ we too have been appointed a portion of the inheritance.” See H. W. Hoehner, Ephesians, 226-27, for discussion on this interpretive issue.