Philippians 3:12

Philippians 3:12 e;labon h' h;dh tetelei,wmai

The Textus Receptus, following several Western witnesses (D* G^c it^{ar, d, (g)} Irenaeus^lat Ambrosiaster) as well as î⁴⁶, reads e;labon h' h;dh dedikai,wmai h' h;dh tetelei,wmai. Although it might be argued that because of homoeoarcton the clause h' h;dh dedikai,wmai was accidentally omitted in the other witnesses, the Committee regarded it as more probable that the additional clause was a gloss “of some pious copyist who imagined that the Divine side of sanctification was left too much out of sight” (H. A. A. Kennedy, Expositor’s Greek Testament, ad loc.). The addition of the clause destroys the balance of the four-part structure of the sentence. The reading adopted for the text is strongly supported by î^61vid a A B D^c K P Y 33 81 614 1739 vg syr^{p, h} cop^{sa, bo} goth arm Clement al.