A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT

James 2:3

James 2:3 evkei/ h' ka,qou {B}

The reading which, in the opinion of a majority of the Committee, best explains the origin of the others is that supported by A C* Y 33 81 614 630 2495 vg syr^h al: Su. sth/qi evkei/ h' ka,qou (“‘Stand there’ or ‘Sit [by my footstool]’”). Obviously secondary (though it supports the position of evkei/ after sth/qi) is evkei/ h' ka,qou w-de (î^74vid a C² K P 049 056 0142 most minuscules syr^p al), where w-de creates a better parallelism and expresses explicitly what is otherwise implied — namely, that the place u`po. to. u`popo,dio,n mou is thought of as nearer the speaker than the place indicated by the command sth/qi evkei/. Not recognizing this, B and several other witnesses (including 1739) transposed evkei/ so as to produce a parallelism of two (rather than three) references to places.

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