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
xx. 28. Westcott and Hort devote one of their “Notes on Select Readings”
to the addition to this verse, and in the edition of 1896 Burkitt adds
that it cannot have stood in Syr^{sin}, because there was not room for
it on the leaf that is missing between Matt. xx. 24 and xxi. 20.
According to W-H the passage is Western, being attested by D Φ among the
Greek manuscripts and by the Latin and Syriac versions. “The first part
only, ὑμεῖς—εἶναι, is preserved in m, ger, and apparently Leo, who
quotes no more; the second part only, εἰσερχόμενοι—χρήσιμον, in ger_{2}
and apparently Hilary. The first part must come from an independent
source, written or oral; the second probably comes from the same, but it
is in substance identical with Luke xiv. 8-10.” Tischendorf states that
of the Old Latin, four (f g_{2} l q) omit the section, which, however,
is found in c d e ff_{1, 2} g_{1} h (m) n, two manuscripts of the
Vulgate (and. emm.), the Old German, and the Saxon. To these W-W add
also the Old Latin r, two manuscripts of the Vulgate not usually
employed by them, and, of those forming the basis of their edition,
H^{mg} Θ O—_i.e._ the Theodulfian Recension. A hand of the tenth century
has written on the margin of O, “mirum unde istud additum: cum Lucas
parabolam de invitatis ad nuptias et primos accubitus eligentibus decimo
canone, ubi M(atthaeu)s sua non communia dicit referat.” This resembles
the marginal note attached to the passage by Thomas of Heraclea (not
given by Jos. White, but by Adler, from _Cod. Assem._, 1): Haec quidem
in exemplis antiquis in Luca tantum leguntur capite 53: inveniuntur
autem in exemplis graecis[267] hoc loco: quapropter hic etiam a nobis
adiecta sunt.
The word δειπνοκλήτωρ, which Resch took from this passage into the text
of his _Logia Jesu_, for ὁ σὲ καὶ αὐτὸν καλέσας, found in Luke xiv. 9,
should itself have provoked investigation. The only Latin witnesses
which render it in a substantive form are d, which has _coenae
invitator_ both times, and m, which has _invitator_ the first time. The
others give it as a relative clause (_qui vocavit, invitavit_), so that
they may have read it in the form in which it stands in our present text
of Luke.[268] It is impossible not to believe that some connection
exists between these substantive expressions and the Syriac מרא אהשמיתא,
“master of the feast,” which is found in Syr^{cu} and Syr^{sin}, and is
also given by Aphraates, for τῷ κεκληκότι αὐτόν in Luke xiv. 12 (Aphr.
388, 12-19; Zahn, _Forsch._, i. 85, note). Syr^{cu} has it both times in
this passage of Matthew.[269]
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