Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - 5:3

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - 5:3


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3. (a) οταν alone: א*AG, 17, 47, latt syrpesh, Tert Cyp Orint.

(b) οταν δε, אcBD, cop syrhcl.

(c) οταν γαρ, KLP, &c., vg, Dam Ambrst.

This grouping of witnesses is peculiar. (c) may be ruled out as a Syrian emendation; cf. 1Co 11:31. (b) makes a rather difficult sense (see Expos. Note); and with cop and Harclean syr testifying in its favour, and G and the latt against it, the δε can hardly be a Western addition. Moreover Δε before λεΓωϲΙΝ might easily escape the eye of the copyist; cf. δε δοκιμαζετε, 1Th 5:21, and note.

For αιφνιδιος AD*G read, itacistically, εφνιδιος.

επισταται in אB 17 37, against the εφισταται of DKP, &c.; see Expository Note.