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OET (OET-LV) And to_the messenger of_the in Smurna assembly write:
These things is_saying the first and the last, who became dead and lived:
OET (OET-RV) To the assembly’s messenger in Smyrna write:
¶ The one who’s the first and the last, who died but lived again, says these things:
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
καὶ τῷ ἀγγέλῳ τῆς ἐν Σμύρνῃ ἐκκλησίας γράψον: τάδε λέγει ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, ὃς ἐγένετο νεκρὸς καὶ ἔζησεν
and ˱to˲_the angel ˱of˲_the in Smyrna assembly write these_‹things› /is/_saying the first and the last who became dead and lived
If you translated the letter to Ephesus in verses 1–7 so that its main body was a simple direct quotation, you can continue to do that with each of the letters. Alternate translation: “Then Jesus told me to write to the angel of the church in Smyrna that the first and the last, who became dead but lived, said these things”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person
τάδε λέγει ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, ὃς ἐγένετο νεκρὸς καὶ ἔζησεν
these_‹things› /is/_saying the first and the last who became dead and lived
If you have decided to use the second person to translate these opening statements in which Jesus refers to himself in the third person, you can continue to do that here. Alternate translation: “I, Jesus, the first and the last, who became dead but lived, say these things”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / merism
ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος
the first and the last
See how you translated the phrase The first and the last in 1:17.
2:8 The seaport village of Smyrna had been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Like Christ, the city had been dead but was now alive. It is the only city of the seven that has survived to this day (Izmir, Turkey).
OET (OET-LV) And to_the messenger of_the in Smurna assembly write:
These things is_saying the first and the last, who became dead and lived:
OET (OET-RV) To the assembly’s messenger in Smyrna write:
¶ The one who’s the first and the last, who died but lived again, says these things:
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.