HEBREWS 11:1 u`po,stasij( pragma,twn {A} The scribe of î13, a third or fourth century papyrus copy, thoughtlessly wrote pragma,twn avna,stasij. 8 ------------------------- 8 According to H. D. F. Sparks, the papyrus reads avposta@sij#; see Wordsworth and White, _Novum Testamentum_, Part 2, fasc... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS 11:11 pi,stei kai. auvth. Sa,rra stei/ra du,namin {C} The difficulties of this verse are well known (for example, in Greek the expression du,namin eivj katabolh.n spe,rmatoj e;laben is regularly used of the male in begetting, not the female in conceiving) and have led some scholars (includi... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS 11:17 prosenh,nocen VAbraa.m to.n VIsaa.k peirazo,menoj The evidence for the inclusion and for the position of the name VAbraa,m fluctuates curiously: (_a_) most witnesses read prosenh,nocen VAbraa.m…; (_b_) a few Western witnesses (D itd) read…peirazo,menoj VAbraa,m; (_c_) 1912 reads VAbr... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS 11:23 basile,wj) {A} After ver. Hebrews 11:23, certain witnesses (chiefly Western) add the equivalent of a whole verse recounting an additional feat of Moses: Pi,stei me,gaj geno,menoj Mwu?sh/j avnei/len to.n Aivgu,ption katanow/n th.n tapei,nwsin tw/n avdelfw/n auvtou/ (“By faith Moses, wh... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS 11:37 evpri,sqhsan {C} The presence in most manuscripts of the rather general statement evpeira,sqhsan (“they were tempted”) amid the author’s enumeration of different kinds of violent death has long been regarded by commentators as strange and unexpected. Many have suggested that evpeira,s... [ Continue Reading ]