1 THESSALONIANS 1:1 eivrh,nh {A} Representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text unite in supporting the shorter reading (B G Y 1739 itar, b, f, g, o, r vg syrp, palms copsa, fay). Other witnesses expand the salutation by adding phrases familiar from the salutations in other Pauli... [ Continue Reading ]
1 THESSALONIANS 1:5 h`mw/n {A} The expression “our gospel,” which is solidly based in a diversity of witnesses of every type of textual family, seems to have offended some scribes; ac C preferred “the gospel of God,” and a* preferred “the gospel of our God.”... [ Continue Reading ]
1 THESSALONIANS 1:7 tu,pon It is more likely that copyists would have altered the singular number tu,pon (B D* 6 33 81 104 181 424c 442 1311 1739 1908 2005 itd, r vg syrp, pal copsa, bo, fay arm eth arab) to the plural tu,pouj (a A C Fgr G K L P Y most minuscules itg syrh _al_) in order to agree w... [ Continue Reading ]