Codex Bezae (D05) Readings #6-9

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Aug 24 06:46:34 EDT 2002


At 9:54 PM -0400 8/22/02, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/22/2002 8:51:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>
>
>At 8:35 PM -0400 8/22/02, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 8/22/2002 8:00:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>>
>>
>>7 - Lk 1:20 NA27/USB4: TOIS LOGOIS MOU, hOITINES PLHRWQHSONTAI EIS TON
>>KAIRON AUTWN; D05: PLHSQHSONAI
>>Faut-il ici préférer le verbe PIMPLHMI à PLHROW ou bien est-ce indifférent?
>>["Should the verb PIMPLHMI be preferred to PLHROW here or does it really
>>make no difference?"]
>>________________________
>>
>>Is this a typo?  I see no PIMPLHMI other than in the comments.
>
>There is a typo, yes--but: D05 reads PLHSQHSONTAI (from PIMPLHMI) where
>NA27/USB4 read PLHRWQHSONTAI
>--
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>
>Thanks for clarifying that.  It called my attention to the fact that the two
>were so similar that I failed to look closely enough to see that they were in
>fact different.  It would seem though that the two have hardly a penny's
>worth of difference between them in any case.  Louw & Nida lists both under
>the same semantic domain 13.106.

I would agree; looks to me like an arbitrary alteration of PLHRWQHSONTAI to
PLHSQHSONTAI by the scribe of D06 without any alteration of the sense. Of
course it's true that the change could have gone the other way, but unless
and until it's proved that Codex Bezae's readings antedate those indicated
in the other oldest Uncials, I'd continue to assume that the alteration
took place in Codex Bezae.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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