press on toward the goal

The Greek in Philippians 3:14 that is often translated in English with “press on toward the goal” is translated into Avaric with an existing expression: ch’alde shshveze: “to race for the finish,” taken from the language of horse racing.

Source: Magomed-Kamil Gimbatov and Yakov Testelets in The Bible Translator 1996, p. 434ff.

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