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12. ἐν τῷ βαπτίσματι. So א*ACDcKLP, Chrys.4.467 Thdt.
ἐν τῷ βαπτισμῷ is read by אcBD*G, a few cursives. Although the evidence for βαπτισμῷ is suspiciously “Western,” yet, in view of the fact that βάπτισμα became the technical word for the sacrament, its substitution for βαπτισμός is readily explicable. Perhaps, therefore, the latter is right here. If so St Paul is laying stress on the process rather than the ceremony as such.
ἐκ νεκρῶν אACKLP. ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν Text. Rec. with BDG, as in Col 1:18.
“In most instances of this or similar phrases ἐκ νεκρῶν is used without τῶν, and with no variety in codd. (In Eph 1:20 L and some twenty-five MSS. prefix τῶν.) But in 1Th 1:10 אBDGLP and many MSS., with Chrys., Theodoret, al., have τῶν, ACK and many MSS. omitting it. It seems, therefore, more probable that τῶν was omitted here in conformity with usage than that it was wrongly added” (Abbott). Yet BDG form a very suspicious group (see Introd. p. lxii.).