translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “the seal.”


text: Grk “the right to eat and drink.” In the context this is a figurative reference to financial support.


text: Or “only according to human authority”; Grk “saying these things according to men.”


text: Grk “working the sacred things.”


text: Grk “so that it will happen in this way in my case.”


text: Or “more converts.” The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. It has been supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning.


text: [L] Ψ 1881 Ï ) lack this parenthetical material, while geographically widespread, early, and diverse witnesses have the words (so א A B C D* F G P 33 104 365 1175 1505 1739 al latt). The phrase may have dropped out accidentally through homoioteleuton (note that both the preceding phrase and the parenthesis end in ὑπὸ νόμον [ Jupo nomon , “under the law”]), or intentionally by overscrupulous scribes who felt that the statement “I myself am not under the law” could have led to license.