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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

I remember how you wept (or, cried), and I want to see you very much, because that will make me completely happy. The expression I am reminded is literally “taking remembrance” or “receiving remembrance.” The word for “remembrance” occurs only three times in the New Testament: here and twice in 2 Peter. The verb form means primarily “to recall,” “to cause oneself to remember,” “to think again about something,” “to refresh one’s memory.” In some languages it will be helpful to say “I
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