EPHESIANS 4:6 pa/sin {A} The Textus Receptus, following a few minuscules and patristic witnesses (489 Chrysostom Theodoret _al_), adds u`mi/n; other witnesses (D F G K L Y 181 326 917 920 itd, g vg syrp, h goth arm _al_) add h`mi/n. Both readings are explanatory glosses, introduced in order to est... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:8 e;dwken {B} On the whole it appears that the reading without kai, is to be preferred, not only because it is supported by such diversified witnesses as î46 a* A D* G 33 88 it vg copsa, bo Marcion Justin _al,_ but also because many a copyist would have been tempted to insert a connect... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:9 kate,bh {A} The addition of prw/ton after kate,bh (ac B Cc K P Y 88 614 _Byz Lect al_) appears to be a natural expansion introduced by copyists to elucidate the meaning. The shorter text is strongly supported by î46 a* A C* D G 1739 _al_.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:17 e;qnh The Textus Receptus adds loipa, before e;qnh, with the correctors of two uncial manuscripts as well as the later uncials and most minuscules (ac Db, c K L P Y arm _al_). The word is obviously an interpretative intrusion; the shorter text is decisively supported by î46 a* A B D... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:19 avphlghko,tej {A} Instead of avphlghko,tej (from avpalge,w, “become callous, without feeling”), a word appropriate to the figure suggested by pw,rwsij of ver. Ephesians 4:18, several Western witnesses read avphlpiko,tej or avfhlpiko,tej (from avpelpi,zw, “despair of oneself”). The C... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:28 tai/j @ivdi,aij# cersi.n to. avgaqo,n {C} The differences of reading are numerous in this brief clause. As concerns the sequence of words, copyists would have been more likely to move to. avgaqo,n next to the participle than to separate them; furthermore, the stronger external eviden... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:29 crei,aj {A} Because crei,aj may have seemed ill-suited in the context, several witnesses (chiefly those that present a Western type of text) have substituted pi,stewj, which is much easier to construe with oivkodomh,n.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPHESIANS 4:32 u`mi/n {B} In the light of the earlier part of the sentence the reading u`mi/n, which is adequately supported by î46 a A G P 81 614 most of the Old Latin copsa, bo goth eth _al_, seems to be required by the sense. The origin of the reading h`mi/n (î49vid B Dgr K Y 33 1739 syrp, h ar... [ Continue Reading ]