TITUS 3:1 avrcai/j {B} After avrcai/j the Textus Receptus adds kai,, following the later uncials (Dc K P) as well as most of the minuscules, versions, and Fathers. The more difficult asyndetic construction is supported by the best witnesses of both the Alexandrian and the Western types of text (a A... [ Continue Reading ]
TITUS 3:9 e;reij On the one hand, from the point of view of transcriptional probability it is more likely that copyists would have altered e;rin to e;reij, in agreement with the plurals before and after it, than vice versa. On the other hand, external evidence appears to favor the plural form: e;re... [ Continue Reading ]
TITUS 3:15 meta. pa,ntwn u`mw/n) {A} The impulse to identify the origin of h` ca,rij in the benediction prompted copyists to insert tou/ kuri,ou (D) or tou/ qeou/ (F G vg). Influence from 2 Timothy 4:22 accounts for the substitution of meta. tou/ pneu,mato,j sou in 33, and for the addition of kai.... [ Continue Reading ]