GALATIANS 5:1 th|/ evleuqeri,a| h`ma/j Cristo.j hvleuqe,rwsen\ sth,kete ou=n {B} Amid the variety of readings, that adopted for the text seems to account best for the origin of the others. The apostle’s abrupt introduction of exhortations was softened by inserting the relative h|- before or after... [ Continue Reading ]
GALATIANS 5:9 zumoi/ Several Western witnesses (D* itd vg goth Marcion Marius Victorinus Ambrosiaster _al_) replace zumoi/ with doloi/. The same Western correction occurs in 1 Corinthians 5:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
GALATIANS 5:20 e;rij The Textus Receptus, following C Db, c F G K L N P most minuscules Old Latin vg goth syrh copbo _al,_ reads the plural e;reij. The earlier representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text (a A B D* 1739 syrp _al_) support the singular e;rij. In later Greek both... [ Continue Reading ]
GALATIANS 5:21 fqo,noi {C} A wide range of witnesses read fqo,noi fo,noi (A C D G K P Y 88 1739 _Byz Lect_ most of the Old Latin vg syrp, h copbo goth arm eth _al_). Although the shorter reading may have originated in accidental omission due to homoeoteleuton, a majority of the Committee, impressed... [ Continue Reading ]
GALATIANS 5:23 evgkra,teia {A} Several witnesses supplement Paul’s list of nine Christian graces: u`pomonh, (“patience”) is appended by Nc 442 463, and a`gnei,a (“chastity”) by D* F G itd, g goth Cyprian Irenaeuslat Origenlat Ambrosiaster _al_. These are obviously scribal interpolations, for if ei... [ Continue Reading ]
GALATIANS 5:24 Cristou/ @VIhsou/# {C} The balance of evidence for and against VIhsou/ makes it preferable to retain the word but to enclose it within square brackets in order to indicate considerable doubt that it belongs in the text. Although the presence of the definite article tou/ with Cristou... [ Continue Reading ]