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OET (OET-LV) as the ones from the_beginning, having_become eyewitnesses and attendants of_the message, gave_ them _over to_us,
OET (OET-RV) as the ones who were eyewitnesses and hearers of these accounts from the beginning handed them over to us.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
οἱ & αὐτόπται & γενόμενοι
the_‹ones› & eyewitnesses & /having/_become
The term eyewitnesses describes people who saw something happen personally, “with their own eyes.” The term describes such people by reference to something associated with sight, the eye. Alternate translation: “who … saw these things personally”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ὑπηρέται & τοῦ λόγου
attendants & ˱of˲_the word
Here, word describes the things that the people who brought the message conveyed by using words. Alternate translation: “servants of the message”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὑπηρέται & τοῦ λόγου
attendants & ˱of˲_the word
The people who brought this message were actually serving God by doing that. But Luke describes them as servants of the word, as if they were serving the message from God. Alternate translation: “served God by telling people his message”
1:1-4 Luke begins his Gospel with a formal preface in the style of the best Greek writers of his day. These four verses are some of the finest literary Greek in the New Testament.
OET (OET-LV) as the ones from the_beginning, having_become eyewitnesses and attendants of_the message, gave_ them _over to_us,
OET (OET-RV) as the ones who were eyewitnesses and hearers of these accounts from the beginning handed them over to us.
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.