Lk2:15 variant
Carlton Winbery
winberyc at speedgate.net
Sun Dec 19 21:21:04 EST 1999
Rick Strelan wrote;
>Being that time of the year, I'd be curious as to how others read the
>variant KAI hOI ANQRWPOI in Lk 2:15. Are they to be understood as belonging
>with the angels [cf the ANDRES in Lk 24:4 and Acts 1:10]?
>
The inclusion of KAI hOI ANQRWPOI is a Byzantine plus the primary Western
witness [Beza], thus Metzger can rank the support for the shorter reading
as superior because it consist of B, aleph, Theta with the Latin and Syriac
versions and I agree that, all other things being equal, that is stronger
evidence. However, we have the possibility of a parablepsis here caused by
homoiteleuton, an accident. Also Lukan style favors the longer reading. I
am sure G.D. Kilpatrick (British and Foreign Bible Society editor)
preferred the longer reading on stylistic grounds. Also von Soden.
If the longer reading is accepted, I would render it "And it came to pass
that the angels departed from them into heaven. And the men, the shepherds
were saying to one another, 'Let us . . .'"
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Dr. Carlton L. Winbery
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