From 483c904ad96c08f7ab15dd02a358af7cac46787e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PaulDeYoung Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:01:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'rom/15/04.md' --- rom/15/04.md | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/rom/15/04.md b/rom/15/04.md index 2164883b5a..22c7dc6f25 100644 --- a/rom/15/04.md +++ b/rom/15/04.md @@ -1,16 +1,11 @@ # For whatever was previously written was written for our instruction -You can translate this in an active form. Alternate translation: "For in times past, the prophets wrote everything in the Scriptures to teach us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]]) - -# our ... we - -Paul includes his readers and other believers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-exclusive]]) +"For in times past, the prophets wrote everything in the Scriptures to teach us". (Psalm 102:18 and Habakkuk 2:2) # in order that through patience and through encouragement of the scriptures -The meanings in the abstract nouns "patience" and "encouragement" can be expressed with the verbs "endure" and "encourage." Alternate translation "in order that by enduring and by being encouraged by the scriptures" or "in order that as we endure and as the scriptures encourage us" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]]) +"in order that by enduring and by being encouraged by the scriptures" or "in order that as we endure and as the scriptures encourage us" # we would have hope -Here the word "hope" is a person's confident expectation that what he desires really will happen. The abstract noun "hope" can be translated here with the verbs "confidently expect" or "confidently wait" or "trust." What the hope is about can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "we would confidently wait for God" or "we would confidently expect that God will do what he has promised" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]]) - +"we would confidently wait for God" or "we would confidently expect that God will do what he has promised" \ No newline at end of file