3:1 Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
5:10 The one who loves money 7 will never be satisfied with money, 8
he who loves wealth 9 will never be satisfied 10 with his 11 income.
This also is futile.
1 tn Or “we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord as in a mirror.”
2 tn Grk “from glory to glory.”
3 tn Grk “just as from.”
4 tn Grk “from the Lord, the Spirit”; the genitive πνεύματος (pneumato") has been translated as a genitive of apposition.
5 tn Grk “transform the body of our humility.”
6 tc Certain
7 tn Heb “silver.” The Hebrew term כֶּסֶף (kesef, “silver”) refers to “money” (HALOT 490–91 s.v. כֶּסֶף 3). It is a synecdoche of specific (i.e., silver) for the general (i.e., money); see E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech, 625-29.
8 sn The Hebrew term “silver” (translated “money”) is repeated twice in this line for rhetorical emphasis.
9 tn The term הָמוֹן (hamon, “abundance; wealth”) has a wide range of meanings: (1) agitation; (2) turmoil; (3) noise; (4) pomp; (5) multitude; crowd = noisy crowd; and (6) abundance; wealth (HALOT 250 s.v. הָמוֹן 1–6). Here, it refers to abundant wealth (related to “pomp”); cf. HALOT 250 s.v. הָמוֹן 6, that is, lavish abundant wealth (Ezek 29:19; 30:4; 1 Chr 29:16).
10 tn The phrase “will never be satisfied” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity. Note the previous line.
11 tn The word “his” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity.