Romans 8:38

Romans 8:38 ou;te evnestw/ta ou;te me,llonta ou;te duna,meij {A}

The Textus Receptus, following K L Y most minuscule manuscripts syr^p goth Chrysostom Theodoret Oecumenius Theophylact, places the words ou;te duna,meij before ou;te evnestw/ta, thus associating them more closely with avrcai, (as also in 1 Corinthians 15:24; Ephesians 1:21). The reading adopted for the text is decisively supported by early and good witnesses (î^{27, 46} a A B C D G it^d vg syr^h cop^{sa, bo} arm eth Origen Eusebius Ephraem Cyril John-Damascus Augustine al). There is no reason to expect that the apostle would give a systematic classification of angelic-beings; on the other hand, the rearrangement of the items has every appearance of being the work of copyists or editors who wished to improve the sequence.