A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT

Revelation 1:5

Revelation 1:5 lu,santi h`ma/j evk {A}

Instead of lu,santi the Textus Receptus, following the later uncials (P 046), most of the minuscules, and several early versions (it^gig vg cop^bo eth), reads lou,santi. The reading lu,santi is to be preferred because it has superior manuscript support (î¹⁸ a A C 1611 it^h syr^{ph, h} arm al); because it is in accord with Old Testament imagery (e.g. Isaiah 40:2 LXX); and because it suits better the idea expressed in ver. Revelation 1:6. The reading lou,santi, which sometimes may have been pronounced like lu,santi, seems to have arisen “due to failure to understand the Hebraic use of evn to denote a price…and a natural misapplication of 7:14” (Hort, “Notes on Select Readings,” ad loc.).

With the verb lou,ein the preposition avpo, is naturally more appropriate than evk; the early versions cannot discriminate between the two prepositions.

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Revelation 1:5

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