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OET (OET-LV) and he_was returning and sitting in the chariot of_him, and was_reading the prophet Aʸsaias/(Yəshaˊyāh).
OET (OET-RV) and was returning home in his chariot. As he rode, he was reading the scroll of the prophet Isayah,
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
τοῦ ἅρματος
the chariot
Here and in 8:29 and 8:38, the term chariot probably means something like “carriage.” Chariots were vehicles for war, not for long-distance travel, and people stood to ride in chariots, while this man was seated. Alternate translation, as in UST: “his carriage”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἀνεγίνωσκεν τὸν προφήτην Ἠσαΐαν
/was/_reading the prophet Isaiah
Luke is using the phrase the prophet Isaiah to mean the prophecies that Isaiah spoke and recorded. Alternate translation: “he was reading from the book of Isaiah”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἀνεγίνωσκεν
/was/_reading
Since Philip was able to hear what the man was reading, as 8:30 explains, the implication is that the man was reading aloud. Alternate translation: “he was reading aloud from”
8:26-40 Philip obeyed the Holy Spirit’s leading and then seized the opportunity to share the message of Good News with a eunuch on the desert road . . . from Jerusalem to Gaza. This incident shows Philip’s remarkable effectiveness as a Christian apologist and evangelist in his outreach for Christ and in his commitment to bringing the Good News to all people regardless of social class or ethnicity.
OET (OET-LV) and he_was returning and sitting in the chariot of_him, and was_reading the prophet Aʸsaias/(Yəshaˊyāh).
OET (OET-RV) and was returning home in his chariot. As he rode, he was reading the scroll of the prophet Isayah,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.