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OET (OET-RV) This letter is from Yohan the elder to my dear friend Gaius who I love because we both follow the truth.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὁ πρεσβύτερος
the elder
John assumes that Gaius will know who he is when he calls himself The elder. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could make John’s name explicit. (See the Introduction to 3 John for a discussion of how to translate the term elder.) Alternate translation: “I, John the elder, am writing”
Note 2 topic: translate-names
Γαΐῳ
˱to˲_Gaius
Gaius is the name of a man, a fellow believer to whom John is writing this letter.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ὃν ἐγὼ ἀγαπῶ ἐν ἀληθείᾳ
whom I /am/_loving in truth
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of truth, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “whom I love sincerely”
1:1 This letter is from John, the elder: The translators have added John (see study note on 2 Jn 1:1).
• There are several people named Gaius in the New Testament (see Acts 19:29; 20:4; Rom 16:23; 1 Cor 1:14); it was a popular name in the Greco-Roman world.
OET (OET-RV) This letter is from Yohan the elder to my dear friend Gaius who I love because we both follow the truth.
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.