1 Timothy 3:16

1 Timothy 3:16 o[j {A}

The reading which, on the basis of external evidence and transcriptional probability, best explains the rise of the others is o[j. It is supported by the earliest and best uncials (a* A*^vid C* G^gr) as well as by 33 365 442 2127 syr^{hmg, pal} goth eth^pp Origen^lat Epiphanius Jerome Theodore Eutherius^{acc. to Theodoret} Cyril Cyril^{acc. to Ps-Oecumenius} Liberatus. Furthermore, since the neuter relative pronoun o[ must have arisen as a scribal correction of o[j (to bring the relative into concord with musth,rion), the witnesses that read o[ (D* it^{d, g, 61. 86} vg Ambrosiaster Marius Victorinus Hilary Pelagius Augustine) also indirectly presuppose o[j as the earlier reading. The Textus Receptus reads qeo,j, with a^e (this corrector is of the twelfth century) A² C² D^c K L P Y 81 330 614 1739 Byz Lect Gregory-Nyssa Didymus Chrysostom Theodoret Euthalius and later Fathers. Thus, no uncial (in the first hand) earlier than the eighth or ninth century (Y) supports qeo,j; all ancient versions presuppose o[j or o[; and no patristic writer prior to the last third of the fourth century testifies to the reading qeo,j. The reading qeo,j arose either (a) accidentally, through the misreading of oc as ;=c=, or (b) deliberately, either to supply a substantive for the following six verbs, or, with less probability, to provide greater dogmatic precision.