Footnotes

1. Revelation 2:10 tn Grk “is about to throw some of you,” but the force is causative in context.
2. Revelation 2:10 tn Or “tempted.”
3. Revelation 2:10 tn Or “experience persecution,” “will be in distress” (see L&N 22.2).
4. Revelation 2:10 tn Grk “crown of life,” with the genitive “of life” (τῆς ζωῆς, tēs zōēs) functioning in apposition to “crown” (στέφανον, stephanon): “the crown that consists of life.”
5. Revelation 2:11 tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”
6. Revelation 2:12 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated due to differences between Greek and English style.
7. Revelation 2:12 tn The phrase “the following” after “write” is supplied to clarify that what follows is the content of what is to be written.
8. Revelation 2:12 tn Grk “These things says [the One]…” See the note on the phrase “this is the solemn pronouncement of” in 2:1.sn The expression This is the solemn pronouncement of reflects an OT idiom. See the note on this phrase in 2:1.
9. Revelation 2:12 sn On the sharp double-edged sword see 1:16.