translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JAS

label: NET translator note

text: Or “wail”; Grk “crying aloud.”


text: Or “hoarded up treasure for the last days”; Grk “in the last days.”


text: Literally a series of verbs without connectives, “you have condemned, you have murdered…he does not resist.”


text: Grk “brothers”; this phrase occurs again three times in the paragraph. See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:2 .


text: Or “advent”; or “coming” (also in v. 8 ).


text: Grk “Behold! The farmer waits.”


text: Grk “being patient.”


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


text: Grk “Behold! We regard…”


text: Grk “anointing.”


text: Grk “it will be forgiven him.”


text: Or “the fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful”; Grk “is very powerful in its working.”


text: Although it is certainly true that Elijah was a “man,” here ἄνθρωπος ( anqrwpo" ) has been translated as “human being” because the emphasis in context is not on Elijah’s masculine gender, but on the common humanity he shared with the author and the readers.


text: Grk “he prayed with prayer” (using a Hebrew idiom to show intensity).


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events.


text: Grk “from the error of his way” (using the same root as the verb “to wander, to err” in the first part of the verse).


text: Grk “his soul”; the referent (the sinner mentioned at the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.