Romans 14:19

Romans 14:19 diw,kwmen {D}

The question whether in this verse Paul describes the Christian ideal (the indicative diw,komen continuing the statements made in verses Romans 14:17 and Romans 14:18), or whether he now begins his exhortation (the subjunctive diw,kwmen leading to kata,lue in ver. Romans 14:20), is extremely difficult to answer. Despite the slightly superior uncial support for diw,komen (a A B G^gr P 048 0209 al), and despite the circumstance that elsewhere in Romans the phrase a;ra ou=n is always followed by the indicative ( Romans 5:18; Romans 7:3, Romans 7:25; Romans 8:12; Romans 9:16, Romans 9:18; cf. Romans 14:12), the Committee felt that, on the whole, the context here calls for the hortatory subjunctive (cf. the imperatives in ver. Romans 14:13 and ver. Romans 14:20).