John 4:24 missing auton

dixonps at juno.com dixonps at juno.com
Thu Mar 9 13:08:34 EST 2000




On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 9:14:10 "Jay Adkins" <JAdkins264 at aol.com> writes:
> In a message dated 3/9/00 9:00:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> dixonps at juno.com writes:
> 
> > According to the critical apparatus of NA26, AUTON is omitted by
Aleph,
> >  D, and ff(j).  That two ancient mss from two different text families
omit
> >  AUTON is significant. 
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> How or would this effect meaning?

It would not affect the meaning, since AUTON would be supplied
by ellipsis.  One can certainly understand why copyists would
insert it, but one can also understand how it could be omitted in
copying.  The point is the presence of AUTON is almost pleonastic.

Paul Dixon



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