[B-Greek] ANEPILHMPTON/ANEPILHPTON in 1 Timothy 3:2Re: [B-Greek] ANEPILHMPTON/ANEPILHPTON in 1 Timothy 3:2Re: [B-Greek] ANEPILHMPTON/ANEPILHPTON in 1 Timothy 3:2

cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jul 21 17:07:08 EDT 2004


At 3:45 PM -0500 7/21/04, Larry Overton wrote:
>Note: I posted a reply to Carl Conrad earlier, but unfortunately clicked
>"Reply" instead of "Reply All." My comments were intended not only for
>Carl, but for the whole list. I post them now (see below). LGO.
>
>On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:51 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:
>
>> I may not be answering your real question, but perhaps I'm
>> not sure just what that real question is. This is primarily
>> a matter of earlier and later spellings of LAMBANW compounds.
>> The older spelling does not have the M  which is found in the
>> present stem only and which  really doesn't belong to the root
>> of the verb LAB. Later spellings  of the verbal adjective and
>> the aorist passive participle carry over the epenthetic M of
>> the present stem. There is of course no difference in meaning.
>>
>
>Actually, Carl, I believe this does answer my question, which essentially
>was about the dating, if you will, of the two spellings. I'm sorry if I
>didn't make that clear. I understand you to be saying, then, that the
>spelling ANEPILHPTON is the older of the two. So then, would it be correct
>to say that the copyists of the MSS and subsequent editions of the Greek
>text that contain the reading ANEPILHMPTON were not supplying/restoring a
>more ancient form of spelling to the text, but rather were following a
>spelling in vogue in their own day? Or am I missing something?
>
>Larry G. Overton

Yes; I think that's the case; however, it should be noted that the spellings in
the MSS are not fully represented in the apparatus when they are not
consequential; for instance, EI and I are often interchanged, E and AI, etc.
Generally the editors of the critical texts tend, I think, to use standardized
spelling of the era of the writing.

Carl W. Conrad
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