translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JAS

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2 .


text: Grk “will receive a greater judgment.”


text: Or “fail.”


text: Grk “in speech.”


text: The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ ( anhr ), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” But it sometimes is used generically to mean “anyone,” “a person,” as here (cf. BDAG 79 s.v. 2 ).


text: Grk “their entire body.”


text: Grk “a small member.”


text: Grk “boasts of great things.”


text: Grk “Behold.”


text: Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”


text: Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Grk (plurals), “every kind of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures.”


text: Grk “the human species.”


text: Ï as well as a few versions and fathers) read “uncontrollable” ( ἀκατασχετόν , akatasceton ), while the most important witnesses ( א A B K P 1739* latt) have “restless” ( ἀκατάστατον , akatastaton ). Externally, the latter reading should be preferred. Internally, however, things get a bit more complex. The notion of being uncontrollable is well suited to the context, especially as a counterbalance to v. 8 a, though for this very reason scribes may have been tempted to replace ἀκατάστατον with ἀκατασχετόν . However, in a semantically parallel early Christian text, ἀκατάστατος ( akatastato" ) was considered strong enough of a term to denounce slander as “a restless demon” (Herm. 27:3). On the other hand, ἀκατάστατον may have been substituted for ἀκατασχετόν by way of assimilation to 1:8 (especially since both words were relatively rare, scribes may have replaced the less familiar with one that was already used in this letter). On internal evidence, it is difficult to decide, though ἀκατασχετόν is slightly preferred. However, in light of the strong support for ἀκατάστατον , and the less-than-decisive internal evidence, ἀκατάστατον is preferred instead.


text: א A B C P Ψ 33 81 945 1241 1739), rendering it as the overwhelmingly preferred reading.


text: Grk “men”; but here ἀνθρώπους ( anqrwpous ) has generic force, referring to both men and women.


text: Grk “works in the gentleness of wisdom.”


text: Grk “This.”


text: Grk “come down”; “descend.”


text: Grk “soulish,” which describes life apart from God, characteristic of earthly human life as opposed to what is spiritual. Cf. 1 Cor 2:14; 15:44-46 ; Jude 19 .


text: Or “willing to yield,” “open to persuasion.”


text: Grk “fruits.” The plural Greek term καρπούς has been translated with the collective singular “fruit.”


text: Or “sincere.”


text: Grk “the fruit of righteousness,” meaning righteous living as a fruit, as the thing produced.


text: Grk “is sown.”


text: Or “for,” or possibly “by.”