1 TIMOTHY 3:1 pisto,j {A} The origin of the variant reading avnqrw,pinoj o` lo,goj (“it is a human saying,” i.e. “a common [or popular] saying”), supported by several Western witnesses (D* itd, 86 Ambrosiaster mssacc. to Jerome Augustine Speculum Sedulius Scotus), is puzzling. If the evidence were... [ Continue Reading ]
1 TIMOTHY 3:3 plh,kthn After plh,kthn the Textus Receptus, as well as many minuscules, inserts mh. aivscrokerdh/. The words are a gloss derived from Titus 1:7 and are not present in a A D F G K L P 5 33 38 104 181 218 263 323 424c 436 442 460 462 618 623 635 920 1149 1738 1827 1837 1838 1906* 1944... [ Continue Reading ]
1 TIMOTHY 3:16 o[j {A} The reading which, on the basis of external evidence and transcriptional probability, best explains the rise of the others is o[j. It is supported by the earliest and best uncials (a* A*vid C* Ggr) as well as by 33 365 442 2127 syrhmg, pal goth ethpp Origenlat Epiphanius Jero... [ Continue Reading ]