COLOSSIANS 2:2 tou/ qeou/( Cristou/ {B} Among what at first sight seems to be a bewildering variety of variant readings, the one adopted for the text is plainly to be preferred (_a_) because of strong external testimony (î46 B Hilary Pelagius Ps-Jerome) and (_b_) because it alone provides an adequ... [ Continue Reading ]
COLOSSIANS 2:7 th|/ pi,stei {A} The reading th|/ pi,stei, strongly supported by B D* H 33 81 _al_, best accounts for the rise of the other readings.... [ Continue Reading ]
COLOSSIANS 2:13 u`ma/j (2) {B} A majority of the Committee preferred u`ma/j, which is adequately supported by a* A C K 81 614 1739 syrp, h copsa, bo eth _al,_ and explained (_a_) its omission from ac D G P Y _al_ on the ground of its seeming to be superfluous, and (_b_) its replacement with h`ma/j... [ Continue Reading ]
COLOSSIANS 2:18 a[ {B} The reading a[ is strongly supported by î46 and good representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of the text (a* A B D* I 33 1739 itd copsa, bo Speculum _al_). Apparently the negative (either ouvk in F G or mh, in ac C Dc K P Y 614 itar, f, g, mon, o vg syrp, h g... [ Continue Reading ]
COLOSSIANS 2:23 tapeinofrosu,nh| @kai,# {C} A minority of the Committee preferred the reading without kai, on the basis of strong and early external evidence, and the likelihood that copyists would insert kai, on the assumption that avfeidi,a| was the third in a series of datives after evn, rather... [ Continue Reading ]