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OET (OET-LV) and they_set false witnesses saying:
- this man is_ not _ceasing speaking messages against this the the holy place and the law,
OET (OET-RV) There they produced the false witnesses saying, “This man won’t stop spreading messages against this holy temple and against the law
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
οὐ παύεται λαλῶν
not /is/_ceasing speaking
If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the negative verb stop. Alternate translation: [continually speaks]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
λαλῶν ῥήματα
speaking words
The men are using the term words to mean things that Stephen has been saying by using words. Alternate translation: [saying things]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἁγίου
the place ¬the holy
The men are describing the temple in Jerusalem by referring to it by something associated with it, that it is a holy place. Alternate translation: [the temple]
6:8-15 The Jewish leaders did to Stephen as they had done to Jesus (cp. Matt 26:3-4, 59-66): They got someone to lie about him, accused him of blasphemy, incited a riot, arrested him, and posted false charges against him.
OET (OET-LV) and they_set false witnesses saying:
- this man is_ not _ceasing speaking messages against this the the holy place and the law,
OET (OET-RV) There they produced the false witnesses saying, “This man won’t stop spreading messages against this holy temple and against the law
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.