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OET (OET-LV) for/because you_all_were once darkness, but now light in the_master, as children of_light be_walking
OET (OET-RV) because you yourselves were once in the darkness but now that you are in the master’s light, you should behave like children of light.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἦτε γάρ ποτε σκότος
˱you_all˲_were for once darkness
Just as one cannot see in the dark, so people who love to sin cannot see or understand the things of God. Alternate translation: “because formerly you did not understand anything about God” See the UST.
Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
γάρ
for
The connecting word because introduces a reason-result relationship. The result is stated first (v.7): that the Ephesian believers should not become partners with evil men. The reason is stated second (v. 8): that the Ephesian believers are no longer darkness, but are now light. Use a phrase in your language that connects a reason to a result, using the order that is most natural for your language.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
νῦν δὲ φῶς ἐν Κυρίῳ
now but light in /the/_Lord
Just as one can see in the light, so people whom God has saved understand how to please God. Alternate translation: “but now you know God and can live for him” See the UST.
Note 4 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast
δὲ
but
The connecting word but introduces a contrast relationship. The fact that the Ephesian believers were formerly darkness is in contrast to the fact that they are now light.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὡς τέκνα φωτὸς περιπατεῖτε
as children ˱of˲_light /be/_walking
To Walk on a path is a metaphor for how a person lives his life. Alternate translation: “Live as people who understand what the Lord wants them to do”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
ὡς τέκνα φωτὸς
as children ˱of˲_light
God desires us to imitate or follow him since we are his spiritual children. Alternate translation: “as God’s children who know the truth” or “because you are God’s children and see the truth”
5:8 Darkness is ignorance of God and his ways and being dominated by sin (see 4:18).
• Light from the Lord is Christ’s good news (see John 8:12). As people of light, believers live in fellowship with God, in whom there is no darkness (see 1 Jn 1:5-7; 5:9; cp. Matt 5:14-16; John 8:12; 12:35-36, 46; Rom 13:12; 2 Cor 6:14; 1 Thes 5:4-8; 1 Pet 2:9).
OET (OET-LV) for/because you_all_were once darkness, but now light in the_master, as children of_light be_walking
OET (OET-RV) because you yourselves were once in the darkness but now that you are in the master’s light, you should behave like children of light.
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.