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Acts 14:10-12
New English Translation
Acts 14:10-12
New English Translation
10 he said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.”[a] And the man[b] leaped up and began walking.[c] 11 So when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted[d] in the Lycaonian language,[e] “The gods have come down to us in human form!”[f] 12 They began to call[g] Barnabas Zeus[h] and Paul Hermes,[i] because he was the chief speaker.
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- Acts 14:10 tn BDAG 722 s.v. ὀρθός 1.a has “stand upright on your feet.”
- Acts 14:10 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Acts 14:10 tn This verb is imperfect tense in contrast to the previous verb, which is aorist. It has been translated ingressively, since the start of a sequence is in view here.
- Acts 14:11 tn Grk “they lifted up their voice” (an idiom).
- Acts 14:11 tn Grk “in Lycaonian, saying.” The word “language” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in English and has not been translated.
- Acts 14:11 tn So BDAG 707 s.v. ὁμοιόω 1. However, L&N 64.4 takes the participle ὁμοιωθέντες (homoiōthentes) as an adjectival participle modifying θεοί (theoi): “the gods resembling men have come down to us.”sn The gods have come down to us in human form. Greek culture spoke of “divine men.” In this region there was a story of Zeus and Hermes visiting the area (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.611-725). The locals failed to acknowledge them, so judgment followed. The present crowd was determined not to make the mistake a second time.
- Acts 14:12 tn The imperfect verb ἐκάλουν (ekaloun) has been translated as an ingressive imperfect.
- Acts 14:12 sn Zeus was the chief Greek deity, worshiped throughout the Greco-Roman world (known to the Romans as Jupiter).
- Acts 14:12 sn Hermes was a Greek god who (according to Greek mythology) was the messenger of the gods and the god of oratory (equivalent to the Roman god Mercury).
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