Stigma and Final Stigma

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Thu Nov 7 01:43:45 EST 2002


At 07:34 PM 11/6/02 -0000, Mark Goodacre wrote:
>Many thanks to Daniel and Stephen for more interesting information on 
>stigma.  Now, is there an error in NA27?  In the apparatus of NA27 
>for Rev. 3.18, a final sigma is used in chi, xi, final sigma.  It is 
>clearly the same letter as the final sigma elsewhere in NA27.  
>However, in NA 26 in exactly the same place we have chi, xi, stigma;  
>here the stigma is clearly different from the final sigma (elongated 
>upper line).

I think you may have found a typographical error in the NA27 apparatus.
What is supposed to be a stigma is identical in appearance to their
final sigma.  Unfortunately, I don't know where a stigma is supposed
to appear elsewhere in the NA27 text to check.  

Stephen Carlson
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