[B-Greek] IPeter 5:5 Implicit hUPOTAGHTE

Iver Larsen iver at larsen.dk
Fri Jun 16 04:49:18 EDT 2006


> Translators of the KJV and editors of the ASV and RV seem to have liked that
> reading, so there must be something to recommend it, but it seems choppy to
> me. I checked Lattimore, who often shows a deep feel for the flow of Greek,
> and he follows the more common interpretation. I'd go with Lattimore,
> myself.
> Webb Mealy

The KJV was probably translated from a different text with an explicit hUPOTASSOMENOI (the "majority text"):

hOMOIWS, NEWTEROI, hUPOTAGHTE PRESBUTEROIS; PANTES DE
ALLHLOIS *hUPOTASSOMENOI* THN
TAPEINOFROSUNHN EGKOMBWSASQE, hOTI . . .

KJV: Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed 
with humility: for...

Iver Larsen 




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