Title. The received form of the titles of St Paul’s Epistles has no ms. authority. It appeared first in Beza’s printed editions, and was adopted by the Elzevirs; the A.V. took it from Beza. ΠΡΟΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΕΙΣ Αʹ is the heading of the Epistle in אABK 17, also in cop basm goth; similarly throughout th... [ Continue Reading ]
DGgr read Σιλβανος, as regularly in the Papyri. BG 47 73, and the Gr. text of Cramer’s Catena, g r vg syrr (except hclmg) basm aeth, conclude the greeting without the clause απο πατρος ημων και κυριου I. X., which is added in 2 Thess., and almost uniformly in later Epp. The shorter reading is sustai... [ Continue Reading ]
אCCDKP &c., latt cop syrr, add to ΜΝΕΙΑΝ the complement ΥΜΩΝ, which is wanting in א*AB 17 67**—a Western and Syrian insertion. Cf. Ephesians 1:16, where D* is against the addition, and א shows no variation. In each of these instances the pronoun has just previously occurred. Versions are of little o... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 2. 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10. Thanksgiving for the Thessalonian Church This εὐχαριστία is one long sentence spun out in a continuous thread (cf. Ephesians 1:3-14; and see _Introd._ p. lix.). It affords a good example of the writer’s characteristic style (see Jowett’s or Lightfoot’s Commentary _ad lo... [ Continue Reading ]
3. The reading ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ … τον κοπον … την υπομονην, of D*, exhibits the carelessness of Western transcribers; G has the accusative throughout. _et laboris et caritatis_ (as if τ. κοπου και τ. αγαπης) in vg. 3. ἈΔΙΑΛΕΊΠΤΩΣ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ: _indesinenter memores_ (Calvin)—or still better, _indesinenter... [ Continue Reading ]
BDG omit, אACKP insert, the article ΤΟΥ before ΘΕΟΥ: cf. 1 Thessalonians 2:4. Possibly the art. is an Alexandrian insertion, due to 1 Thessalonians 1:3 (ΕΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ). See the note next but two; cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:13; also Hebrews 6:18, where the same group (א*ACP) insert the article.... [ Continue Reading ]
C reads ΕΥΑΓΓ. του θεου (instead of ΗΜΩΝ); א του θεου ΗΜΩΝ, by conflation: this aberrant variation may be due to the influence of 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 1 Thessalonians 2:8 f. ACDGKP, &c., influenced by the context, repeat εν before ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΑΙ—wanting in אB 17. εν before ΥΜΙΝ is supported by BDG and... [ Continue Reading ]
ΤΥΠΟΝ in BD* 17 47 67** latt vg sah cop. τυπους, in אACGKLP, &c., assimilated to ΥΜΑΣ. Cf. 2 Thessalonians 3:9; but the plural in 1 Peter 5:3. The T.R. omits second ΕΝ (ΤΗΙ ΑΧ.) after KL and many minuscules; other minuscules omit ΤΗΙ also—in both instances assimilating 1 Thessalonians 1:7 to 1 Thes... [ Continue Reading ]
8. On the other hand, אACDGP, &c., latt vg, insert ΕΝ ΤΗΙ before ΑΧΑΙΑΙ, copying 1 Thessalonians 1:7; while B 17 37 47 sah cop preserve the shorter reading. On the grammatical difference see Expository Note. ΕΧΕΙΝ ΗΜΑΣ (in this order): all pre-Syrian uncials; B* reads υμας, as in next note. 8. ἈΦʼ... [ Continue Reading ]
B, with 20 minuscules, sah cop, Thdrt Dam Oec, reads ΠΕΡΙ υμων (for ΗΜΩΝ), a mistake due perhaps to the prominent ΥΜΩΝ of 1 Thessalonians 1:8; WH place υμων in the margin. The εχομεν of T.R. is found only in a few minuscules; ΕΣΧΟΜΕΝ in all uncials and best versions. Present and 2nd aorist forms of... [ Continue Reading ]
ACK omit ΤΩΝ before ΝΕΚΡΩΝ: Pauline usage varies. Before ΤΗΣ ΟΡΓΗΣ, ΕΚ is read by אABP 17 73: ΑΠΟ by CDGKL, &c., Western and Syrian; vg _ab ira._ 10. ΚΑῚ�. (_You turned to God from idols, to serve … God) and to await His Son (coming) out of the heavens_. The emphasis laid on “hope” at the outset of... [ Continue Reading ]