Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New TestamentNestle, Eberhard
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Introduction to the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament
Nestle, Eberhard
Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, Textual
An attentive reader will have observed that the reading in Luke ix.
26, τους εμους = my followers, which is now established for Origen,
is at present supported by D alone of the Greek manuscripts and by
three Old Latin witnesses. (It is also found in the Curetonian
Syriac, but unfortunately the corresponding words in the
Sinai-Syriac could not be made out with certainty by Mrs. Lewis; see
_Some Pages_, p. 72 = p. 168 in the first edition). Now, look at the
passage in Origen’s work, i. 25, 26 ff. (p. 293 in De la Rue’s
edition): ο μεν γαρ Ματθαιος ανεγραφε λεγοντα τον κυριον ... ο δε
Λουκας ... ο δε Μαρκος· ἀββᾶ ὁ πατὴρ, δυνατά σοι πάντα· παρένεγκε
κ.τ.λ. The passage is printed thus by Koetschau, agreeing exactly
with the earlier printed editions and our texts of the N. T. in Mark
xiv. 36. But in this he is far wrong. Because, as his own apparatus
shows us, the Venetian manuscript, which he rightly follows
elsewhere, reads the words in the order δυνατὰ πάντα σοί, which is
exactly the order of the words (Mark xiv. 36) in D, but again in no
other Greek manuscript with the solitary exception of the cursive
473.[123] But there are even passages where Koetschau follows the
printed text of the N. T. in the scriptural quotations in despite of
both his manuscripts. In i. 29, 13 (i. 295 De la Rue), where Matt.
x. 17-23 is quoted, he inserts after πῶς ἢ τί λαλήσητε the clause
δοθήσεται γὰρ ὑμῖν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τί λαλήσητε from Matt. x. 19, on
the supposition that these words may have dropped out of the
archetype of M P on account of the homoioteleuton. But they are also
omitted in Cod. D of the N. T. And this, moreover, is not the only
point of agreement between this manuscript and the text given in
this quotation. There is, _e.g._, the omission of δέ in v. 17, the
reading παραδώσουσιν in v. 19, which Koetschau has altered to the
more grammatical παραδῶσιν, again without sufficient reason and in
defiance of both his manuscripts, and the omission of ὑμῶν in v. 20,
of which there is no mention in Tischendorf (see the Collation of D
in my _Supplementum_). Origen also agrees with D, though not
verbally, in reading κἂν ἐκ ταύτης διώκωσιν φεύγετε εἰς τὴν ἄλλην
further down (v. 23), where again Koetschau seems to me to have
unnecessarily inserted τὴν, which is omitted in his principal
manuscript and also in D. Compare, also, i. 22, 12, where Origen
agrees with D in reading φέρωσιν (Luke xii. 11) instead of
εἰσφέρωσιν, read by our critical editions on the authority of א B L
X, or προσφέρωσιν by the _textus receptus_ with A Q R, etc. Both
concur, also, in the omission of the first ἢ τί in the same verse.
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