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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Believers, who trust in God for him to protect them, are spoken of as if they we
 
 # will have a strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us
 
-Trust in God is spoken of as if encouragement were an object that could be presented to a person and that person could hold on to it. Alternate translation: "will continue to trust in God just has he encouraged us to do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
+The phrase "to hold firmly to the hope set before us" is a metaphor meaning to continue to hope in what God has promised to do.  Here "hope" means "a confident expectation." Alternate translation: "will continue to trust in God just has he encouraged us to do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
 
 # set before us