Revelation 14:8 a;lloj a;ggeloj deu,teroj {B}

The reading that seems to explain best the origin of the others is a;lloj a;ggeloj deu,teroj, which is supported by ac (C deu,teron) P 051 1611 2053 al (the versional evidence is without much force) and by the sequence of a;lloj a;ggeloj tri,toj in ver. Revelation 14:9. This sequence, which agrees with the author’s style in Revelation 6:4; Revelation 10:1; Revelation 15:1 (where an adjective used in addition to a;lloj is placed after the noun), is altered in A 046 more than one hundred minuscules Primasius al to a;lloj deu,teroj a;ggeloj, while other witnesses, followed by the Textus Receptus, eliminate the tautological deu,teroj (61 69 296 598 2039 2049 2066 2286 itar vg eth al). Likewise the reading a;lloj deu,teroj (î47 a* 1006 1841 1854 2040 syrph) appears to presuppose the reading a;lloj a;ggeloj deu,teroj, from which a;ggeloj was accidentally omitted in transcription because of the similarity of letters in a;lloj and a;ggeloj 7. (See also the comment on 14.6.)


7 See Josef Schmid, Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Apokalypse-Textes; II. Teil, Die alten Stämme (Munich, 1955), pp. 104 f.

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