translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Or “destroyed.”


text: Or “dwelling place.”


text: Or “to be clothed with.”


text: , stating that ἐκδυσάμενοι is “an early alteration to avoid apparent tautology” ( TCGNT 511; so also Plummer, 148). In addition, the reading ἐνδυσάμενοι fits the Pauline pattern of equivalence between apodosis and protasis that is found often enough in his conditional clauses. Thus, “put on” has the mark of authenticity and should be considered original.


text: Grk “it”; the referent (the “heavenly dwelling” of the previous verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Or “we are burdened.”


text: Grk “for this very thing.”


text: Or “first installment,” “pledge,” “deposit” (see the note on the phrase “down payment” in 1:22 ).


text: Grk “we know that being at home in the body”; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).


text: Grk “we walk.”


text: Or “be absent.”


text: Grk “whether we are at home” [in the body]; an idiom for being alive (L&N 23.91).


text: Grk “to be pleasing to him.”


text: Or “whether good or bad.”


text: Or “because we know what it means to fear the Lord.”


text: The present tense of πείθομεν ( peiqomen ) has been translated as a conative present.


text: Grk “men”; but ἄνθρωπος ( anqrwpo" ) is generic here since clearly both men and women are in view (Paul did not attempt to win only men to the gospel he preached).


text: Or “clearly evident.” BDAG 1048 s.v. φανερόω 2.b. β has “ θεῷ πεφανερώμεθα we are well known to God 2 Cor 5:11 a, cp. 11b; 11:6 v.l.”


text: The present tense of συνιστάνομεν ( sunistanomen ) has been translated as a conative present.


text: Or “to boast about us.”


text: Or “who boast.”


text: Or “in what is seen.”


text: The phrase ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ ( Jh agaph tou Cristou , “the love of Christ”) could be translated as either objective genitive (“our love for Christ”) or subjective genitive (“Christ’s love for us”). Either is grammatically possible, but with the reference to Christ’s death for all in the following clauses, a subjective genitive (“Christ’s love for us”) is more likely.


text: Grk “one”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Or “but for him who died and was raised for them.”


text: Grk “we know.”


text: Grk “no one according to the flesh.”


text: Grk “we have known Christ according to the flesh.”


text: Grk “old things have passed away.”


text: א B C D* F G 048 0243 365 629 1175 1739 pc co), and the different word order of the phrase which includes it (“all things new” or “new all things”) in the ms tradition indicates its secondary character. This secondary addition may have taken place because of assimilation to τὰ δὲ πάντα ( ta de panta , “and all [these] things”) that begins the following verse.


text: Grk “new things have come [about].”


text: Or “he has entrusted to us.”


text: Or “as though God were begging.”


text: Or “we beg you.”


text: Grk “He”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.