a cause for great joy’ [REB], ‘here is cause for rejoicing’ [TNT]. This verb is translated as a present imperative [NLT, TEV] or as future indicative [WBC; CEV]. QUESTION—What is the antecedent to which ᾧ ‘this’ refers? It is a masculine or neuter relative pronoun in the dative case, and cannot refer individually to ‘hope’, ‘inheritance’, or ‘salvation’, which are all feminine and would require a feminine relative pronoun. While ᾧ could refer to God or Jesus Christ, none of the commentators take