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Jam 3:9. Ἐν αὐτῇ-καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ, with this itself-and with this itself) A very expressive phrase.-Θεὸν) God. Κύριον, Lord[39]) is the reading of the Alexandrian, Colbertinus 7, and Syriac texts. Baumgarten acknowledges the error; for God and Father is a common title, but not Lord and Father; but he adds the ancient Vulgate or Italian Version. In the Reutling. M.S. it is so read; for the copyists frequently use the name of God and Lord, without distinction; but the other Latin Manuscripts, with one consent, read God (wherefore many of them also omit the particle et, which immediately follows), and thus Cassioderus, in his Conplexiones, and more fully in the preface to his Commentary on the Psalms.-καὶ πατέρα) Baumgarten remarks, on the authority of Mill, δὲ is wanting in the Arabic and Æthiopic Versions.-γεγονότας) The Alexandrian and Colbertinus 7, read γεγεννημένους;[40] and, in addition, notice that ΔῈ is to be read for ΚΑῚ. Mill also reads καὶ: Kuster, δὲ. The latter also reads ΓΕΓΕΝΗΜΈΝΟΥς with a single Ν.-ΚΑΘ ̓ ὉΜΟΊΩΣΙΝ ΘΕΟῦ, after the likeness of God) We have lost the likeness of God: there remains however from that source a nobleness which cannot be destroyed, and this we ought to reverence both in ourselves and in others. Moreover, we have remained men, capable, by the Divine blessing, of being formed again after that likeness, to which the likeness of man ought to be conformed. They who curse, hinder that effect. Absalom has fallen from the favour of his father, but the people still recognise him to be the king’s son.
[39] ABC Vulg. Syr. Memph. read Κύριον. Rec. Text reads θεὸν with MSS. of Vulg. and later Syr., but no other very old authority.-E.
[40] But BC read γεγονότας.-E.