[B-Greek] 1 Cor 6:3: MH/TIGE vs. MH/TI GE

Rick Brannan textgeek at hotmail.com
Fri May 30 14:13:48 EDT 2003


Hi folks.

I ran across something curious the other day. I'd earlier thought that the 
only differences between NA27 and UBS4 had to do with punctuation and casing 
(and paragraph formatting). However, in 1 Cor 6.3, NA27 has MH/TI GE (i.e., 
as two words) and UBS4 has MH/TIGE (as one word).

I don't see too much significance between this being represented as two 
words vs. one word. Further research shows Byzantine texts (Textus Receptus, 
the Farstad/Hodges Byz. text) to prefer two words while Westcott-Hort 
prefers one word. Metzger is silent on this verse in his Textual Commentary 
(2nd Ed.).

I see nothing mentioned in either the NA27 apparatus, the UBS4 apparatus, or 
the Farstad/Hodges apparatus. I've not yet checked Tischendorf, but my 
curiosity has been piqued. Is there significance to this seeming variant? If 
so, what is it? If not, why do NA27 and UBS4 differ in this case?

Just curious,

Rick Brannan
textgeek at hotmail.com

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