EPHESIANS 6:1 @evn kuri,w|# {C} The words evn kuri,w| are absent from several early manuscripts and patristic quotations (B D* G itd, g Marcion Clement Tertullian Cyprian Ambrosiaster). It is difficult to decide whether they were added by copyists who recollected Ephesians 5:22 and/or Colossians 3:... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 6:12 h`mi/n {B} Whereas the preponderance of external evidence (î46 B D* G Y 81 _al_) appears to support u`mi/n, the natural tendency of copyists would have been to alter h`mi/n to u`mi/n, since the rest of the paragraph involves the second person. A majority of the Committee preferred h... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 6:19 tou/ euvaggeli,ou {A} Although it may appear noteworthy that B joins G itg, mon _al_ in supporting the shorter reading, in the Pauline corpus codex Vaticanus not infrequently displays a strand of Western contamination, and therefore the weight of its testimony, when united with Weste... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 6:20 evn auvtw|/ {C} In place of evn auvtw|/ (which refers, of course, to to. musth,rion tou/ euvaggeli,ou of ver. Ephesians 6:19), a few important witnesses read auvto,, thus pointing more directly to the antecedent.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 6:24 avfqarsi,a|) {A} The Textus Receptus adds the liturgical avmh,n, with ac D K L P most minuscules syrp, h copbomss goth armmss ethpp. The text is well supported by î46 a* A B F G 33 copsa, bo, fay arm ethro.... [ Continue Reading ]