1 JOHN 4:3 mh. o`mologei/ {A} In place of mh. o`mologei/ several versional and patristic witnesses substitute the remarkable reading lu,ei (“Every spirit that _annuls_ Jesus is not of God”) or _solvit_ (“severs”). Although several scholars (including Zahn, Harnack, Büchsel [in Kittel], Preisker) h... [ Continue Reading ]
1 JOHN 4:10 hvgaph,kamen {B} As concerns the weight of external evidence, the two readings are more or less equally supported. From a transcriptional point of view, scribes would be likely to assimilate the perfect tense to the following verbs, which are aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
1 JOHN 4:19 avgapw/men {A} The reading that best explains the origin of the others is avgapw/men, which is adequately supported by A B 5 322 323 424c 945 1241 1739 1881 itr vid vg _al_. Feeling the need of an accusative object after the verb, especially when it was (wrongly) taken to be the hortat... [ Continue Reading ]
1 JOHN 4:20 ouv du,natai avgapa/n) {A} Instead of the negative ouv, which is strongly supported by the Alexandrian text as well as by other witnesses (a B Y 1739 syrh copsa Cyprian Lucifer), the Textus Receptus, following A K L most minuscules itr vg syrp copbo arm eth _al_, substitutes the interr... [ Continue Reading ]