Discovery BoxPsalms 22:30
Context22:30 A whole generation 1 will serve him;
they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord. 2
Isaiah 4:3
Context4:3 Those remaining in Zion, 3 those left in Jerusalem, 4
will be called “holy,” 5
all in Jerusalem who are destined to live. 6
Ezekiel 9:4
Context9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem 7 and put a mark 8 on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”
Ezekiel 13:9
Context13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council 9 of my people, nor be written in the registry 10 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Luke 10:20
Context10:20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice that 11 the spirits submit to you, but rejoice 12 that your names stand written 13 in heaven.”
Philippians 4:3
Context4:3 Yes, I say also to you, true companion, 14 help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry 15 along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.
Revelation 13:8
Context13:8 and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, 16 everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world 17 in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed. 18
[22:30] 2 tn Heb “it will be told concerning the Lord to the generation.” The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).
[4:3] 3 tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
[4:3] 4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[4:3] 5 tn Or “set apart,” cf. CEV “special.”
[4:3] 6 tn Heb “all who are written down for life in Jerusalem.” A city register is envisioned; everyone whose name appears on the roll will be spared. This group comprises the remnant of the city referred to earlier in the verse.
[9:4] 7 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”
[9:4] 8 tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.
[13:9] 9 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
[13:9] 10 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
[10:20] 11 tn Grk “do not rejoice in this, that.” This is awkward in contemporary English and has been simplified to “do not rejoice that.”
[10:20] 12 tn The verb here is a present imperative, so the call is to an attitude of rejoicing.
[10:20] 13 tn The verb here, a perfect tense, stresses a present reality of that which was a completed action, that is, their names were etched in the heavenly stone, as it were.
[4:3] 14 tn Or “faithful fellow worker.” This is more likely a descriptive noun, although some scholars interpret the word σύζυγος (suzugos) here as a proper name (“Syzygos”), L&N 42.45.
[4:3] 15 tn Grk “in the gospel,” a metonymy in which the gospel itself is substituted for the ministry of making the gospel known.
[13:8] 16 tn Grk “it”; the referent (the beast) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[13:8] 17 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.
