OET interlinear 2COR 8:20

uW Translation Notes:

στελλόμενοι

avoiding

Here, the word avoiding introduces Paul’s reason for including this fellow believer in the process of collecting and distributing money. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase here that introduces a reason for doing something. Alternate translation: “we included him to avoid” or “our goal was to avoid”

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / extrainfo

τοῦτο, μή τις

this lest anyone

Here Paul introduces what he and his fellow workers wish to avoid by using the word this, and then he states what it is that they do not want to happen. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a different form that identifies what Paul wishes to avoid. Alternate translation: “how someone” or “any possibility that a person”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἐν τῇ ἁδρότητι ταύτῃ τῇ διακονουμένῃ

in ¬the exuberance this ¬which /being/_served

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of generosity, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “concerning what people generously offered that is being administered” or “concerning the generous gift being administered”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τῇ ἁδρότητι ταύτῃ

¬the exuberance this

Here, the word generosity refers to the large sum of money that Paul has collected and plans to give to the believers in Jerusalem. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make the idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “this large sum of money” or “this generous sharing with the believers in Jerusalem”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

τῇ διακονουμένῃ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν

¬the ¬which /being/_served by us

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “that we are administering”