Matt 25:3; AI GAR/AITINES

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Aug 4 17:04:13 EDT 1999


At 04:43 PM 8/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Please disregard my two previous posts that were incomplete and that
>escaped without my permission.
>
>Matthew 25:3a
>1. hAITINES MWRAI LABOUSAI  E W Delta Pi Omega fam13 565
>2. AI GAR MWRAI LABOUSAI    Aleph B C L Sigma 33
>
>As I was working on a variant in Matt 25:3, I wondered how the first
>variant could make sense with the relative AITINES (carried over from Matt
>25:1b).  Could AITINES be a whole relative clause on its own here?
>

It seems that that is one possibility.  NA27 doesnt even list the variant-
so the editors must not have taken it very seriously.  It seems to me a
clarifying clause attached to what follows- but it is apparently unnecessary
and doesnt really add abything to the verse sense wise.

Best,

Jim

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