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17 lines
921 B
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# What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart
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Paul asks this question to show the believers they should stop trying to persuade him. AT: "Stop what you are doing. Your weeping is breaking my heart" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# breaking my heart
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To make someone sad or to discourage someone is spoken of as if it were a heart being broken. Here "heart" stands for a person's emotions. AT: "discouraging me" or "making me very sad" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# not only to be tied up
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "not only for them to tie me up" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# for the name of the Lord Jesus
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Here "name" refers to the person of Jesus. AT: "for the sake of the Lord Jesus" or "because I believe in the Lord Jesus" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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