Footnotes

1. Revelation 3:1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated due to differences between Greek and English style.
2. Revelation 3:1 tn The phrase “the following” after “write” is supplied to clarify that what follows is the content of what is to be written.
3. Revelation 3:1 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.
4. Revelation 3:1 tn Grk “who has” (cf. 1:16).
5. Revelation 3:1 tn Grk “a name.”
6. Revelation 3:1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
7. Revelation 3:1 tn The prepositional phrase “in reality” is supplied in the translation to make explicit the idea that their being alive was only an illusion.
8. Revelation 3:2 tn The verb ἔμελλον (emellon) is in the imperfect tense.
9. Revelation 3:2 tn The perfect passive participle has been translated as an intensive (resultative) perfect here.
10. Revelation 3:2 tn Or “in the judgment.” BDAG 342 s.v. ἐνώπιον 3 states, “in the opinion/judgment of…As a rule…of θεός or κύριος; so after…πεπληρωμένος Rv 3:2.”
11. Revelation 3:3 tn The expression πῶς εἴληφας καὶ ἤκουσας (pōs eilēphas kai ēkousas) probably refers to the initial instruction in the Christian life they had received and been taught; this included doctrine and ethical teaching.
12. Revelation 3:3 tn Grk “keep it,” in the sense of obeying what they had initially been taught.
13. Revelation 3:3 tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mē, the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek).
14. Revelation 3:3 tn Or “come on.”
15. Revelation 3:4 tn Grk “a few names”; here ὄνομα (onoma) is used by figurative extension to mean “person” or “people”; according to L&N 9.19 there is “the possible implication of existence or relevance as individuals.”
16. Revelation 3:4 tn Or “soiled” (so NAB, NRSV, NIV); NCV “have kept their clothes unstained”; CEV “have not dirtied your clothes with sin.”
17. Revelation 3:4 tn The word “dressed” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.
18. Revelation 3:5 tn Or “who overcomes.”
19. Revelation 3:5 tn Grk “thus.”
20. Revelation 3:5 tn Or “white robes.”
21. Revelation 3:5 tn The negation here is with οὐ μή (ou mē), the strongest possible form of negation in Koine Greek.
22. Revelation 3:5 tn Or “will never wipe out.”
23. Revelation 3:5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
24. Revelation 3:5 tn Grk “will confess.”