Wahyu 2:23
Konteks2:23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers 1 with a deadly disease, 2 and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay 3 each one of you 4 what your deeds deserve. 5
Wahyu 3:2
Konteks3:2 Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about 6 to die, because I have not found your deeds complete 7 in the sight 8 of my God.
Wahyu 13:9
Konteks13:9 If anyone has an ear, he had better listen!
[2:23] 1 tn Grk “her children,” but in this context a reference to this woman’s followers or disciples is more likely meant.
[2:23] 2 tn Grk “I will kill with death.” θάνατος (qanatos) can in particular contexts refer to a manner of death, specifically a contagious disease (see BDAG 443 s.v. 3; L&N 23.158).
[2:23] 3 tn Grk “I will give.” The sense of δίδωμι (didwmi) in this context is more “repay” than “give.”
[2:23] 4 sn This pronoun and the following one are plural in the Greek text.
[2:23] 5 tn Grk “each one of you according to your works.”
[3:2] 6 tn The verb ἔμελλον (emellon) is in the imperfect tense.
[3:2] 7 tn The perfect passive participle has been translated as an intensive (resultative) perfect here.
[3:2] 8 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.”