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
i. 18. For Κηφᾶν, as given in our critical editions, Zahn (_Einleitung_,
ii. 14) would read Πέτρον. He accounts for the remarkable transition
from the name Πέτρος in ii. 7, 8 to Κηφᾶς in ii. 9, 11, 14 very well by
saying that Paul in the latter verses is echoing the language used by
the Judaizers from Palestine, just as he does in speaking of the Three
as στῦλοι. Seeing that Paul persistently employs the name Κηφᾶς in 1
Corinthians, a scribe might have introduced this name, with which he had
become familiar, into Galatians i. 18 also, just as Ἰσκαριώτης was
carried over from the Synoptics into most manuscripts of John’s Gospel,
displacing the title ἀπὸ Καρυώτου. The following table will show the
distribution of the Greek manuscripts in support of the readings Κηφᾶς
and Πέτρος in Galatians:—
Κηφᾶς. Πέτρος.
i. 18, א* A B 17, 67**, 71. א^c D E F G K L P.
ii. 7, —— omnes.
ii. 8, —— omnes.
ii. 9, א B C K L P etc. D E F G (A omits).
ii. 11, א A B C H P. D E F G K L.
ii. 14, א A B C 10, 17, D E F G K L P.
67**, 137.
It will be observed that in ii. 9 K L P take the side of א (A) B, while
in verse 11 P alone does so, and that D E F G are the only witnesses
that are consistent.
ii. 5. οἷς οὐδὲ is omitted by D*, by Tertullian, who ascribes the
negative to Marcion (_Adv. Marcionem_, v. 3), by certain manuscripts
known to Victorinus Afer, who says “in plurimis codicibus et latinis et
graecis ista sententia est _Ad horam cessimus subjectioni_,” and by the
Latin translator of Irenæus (_Adv. Haereses_, iii. 13, 3). Ambrosiaster
calls attention to the discrepancy between the Greek and Latin
manuscripts: “Graeci e contra dicunt _Nec ad horam cessimus_,” and
similarly Sedulius. Bengel remarked on the proneness of scribes to
insert or omit a negative: “Omnino apud Latinos lubrica sub calamo est
_non_ particula.... Saepe etiam in graecis aliisque οὐκ omissum.” See
Haussleiter, _Forschungen_, iv. 31 ff., who says that the subject is one
deserving of special treatment. Bengel refers to the exhaustive
discussion “de negationibus quae Pandectis Florentinis recte male
additae vel detractae sunt,” but there might be a good deal said on
these theological _Sic et Non_ also.
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