3:4 Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! 1
You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
1:5 For to which of the angels did God 2 ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? 3 And in another place 4 he says, 5 “I will be his father and he will be my son.” 6
1 tn Heb “Have you not just now called out to me, ‘[you are] my father!’?” The rhetorical question expects a positive answer.
2 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Grk “I have begotten you.”
sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.
4 tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.
5 tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.
6 tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”
sn A quotation from 2 Sam 7:14 (cf. 1 Chr 17:13).