LUKE 4:4 a;nqrwpoj {B} The shortest reading, which has good and early support, must be original; the longer forms of text have been assimilated by copyists to the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 4:4) or to the Septuagint of Deuteronomy 8:3, either verbatim or according to the general sense. If any of... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 4:5-12 In order to bring Luke’s account of the Temptation into harmony with the sequence of temptations in Matthew ( Matthew 4:5-11), several Old Latin witnesses (itb, c, l, q, r1), at least one Vulgate manuscript (G), and Ambrose in his Commentary on the Gospel According to Luke, 7 transpose... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 4:17 avnaptu,xaj {B} Since the synagogal copies of Old Testament books were in scroll form, the use of the verb “to unroll” is highly appropriate. Although copyists may have introduced avnaptu,xaj as a pedantic correlative to ptu,xaj in ver. Luke 4:20, it is more probable that, being accustom... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 4:18 me (2) {A} Following avpe,stalke,n me, a number of witnesses continue with the words iva,sasqai tou.j suntetrimme,nouj th.n kardi,an. This is an obvious scribal supplement introduced in order to bring the quotation more completely in accord with the Septuagint text of Isaiah 61:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
LUKE 4:44 eivj ta.j sunagwga.j th/j VIoudai,aj {B} In view of Luke’s earlier reference (in ver. Luke 4:14) to the beginning of Jesus’ Galilean ministry, the reading th/j VIoudai,aj (î75 a B C L ¦1 892 _Lect_ syrs, h _al_) is obviously the more difficult, and copyists have corrected it to th/j Galil... [ Continue Reading ]