Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - 1:1

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Thessalonians 1:1 - 1:1


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1. DGgr read Σιλβανος, as regularly in the Papyri.

BG 47 73, and the Gr. text of Cramer’s Catena, g r vg syrr (except hclmg) basm aeth, conclude the greeting without the clause απο πατρος ημων και κυριου I. X., which is added in 2 Thess., and almost uniformly in later Epp. The shorter reading is sustained by Chr, in his Commentary ad loc., Thphyl, and expressly by Or4, 468 (Lat. interpr.): “Ad Thess. vero prima ita habet, Gratia vobis et pax, et nihil ultra”; similarly Luciferbrug, “Non addas, a Deo patre nostro et domino J. C.” The T.R., with minor variations, is found in all other witnesses, including אACDKLP, the old latt (except f g r) cop, &c. The tendency to assimilate formulæ of salutation was irresistible; cf. Col 1:2, where BD vg syrr (except hclmg) Or Chr, against the vast majority, support the shorter text. A case for the maxim, “Brevior lectio præferenda.”