[B-Greek] DEUTEROPRWTWi in Luke 6:1
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Apr 6 16:46:42 EDT 2010
Another incoming message that slipped between the cracks:
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From: "Delwyn Campbell" <dxcj4life at hotmail.com>
Date: April 6, 2010 1:37:46 PM EDT
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: "deuteroprotoi" in Luke 6:1 - legitimate? spurious?
I was reading Luke 6 today, and in the first verse there is a word, “deuteroprotoi,” which is accepted by Matthew Henry, but criticized by Robertson and Vincent. It is included in the Textus Receptus, and left out of the Westcott/Hort text. What does the word mean, is it used anywhere else, and why should it be/not be in the text?
Delwyn X. Campbell
dxcj4life at hotmail.com
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NA27/UBS4: Luke 6:1 Ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν σαββάτῳ διαπορεύεσθαι αὐτὸν διὰ σπορίμων, ...
[EGENETO DE EN SABBATWi DIAPOREUESQAI AUTON DIA SPORIMWN, ... ]
Textus Receptus: Luke 6:1 εγενετο δε εν σαββατω δευτεροπρωτω διαπορευεσθαι αυτον δια των σποριμων ...
[EGENETO DE EN SABBATW DEUTEROPRWTW DIAPOREUESQAI AUTON DIA TWN SPORIMWN ... ]
I'll simply cite Metzger's note in his Commentary on the Text of the GNT:
"6.1 σαββάτῳ {C}
The word δευτεροπρῶτος occurs nowhere else, and appears to be a vox nulla that arose accidentally through a transcriptional blunder. Perhaps some copyist introduced πρώτῳ as a correlative to ἐν ἑτέρῳ σαββάτῳ in ver. 6, and a second copyist, in view of 4.31, wrote δευτέρῳ, deleting πρώτῳ by using dots over the letters – which was the customary way of cancelling a word. A subsequent transcriber, not noticing the dots, mistakenly combined the two words into one, which he introduced into the text. Alternatively, as Skeat has suggested,8 by dittography the letters βατω were added to σαββάτῳ. A later copyist interpreted the β as δευτέρῳ and the α as πρώτῳ, and took τῳ as an indication that the adjective was to agree with σαββάτῳ."
Note: "vox nulla" means something like "nonexistent word."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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