[B-Greek] hOTI or hO TI - Westcott-Hort readings?
Keith Yoder
keith_yoder at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 09:20:08 EDT 2011
In working with the Perseus version of the WH Greek NT, I've run across eight instances where WH resolves the letter sequence OTI as the particle hOTI, but almost everyone else (UBS, NA, etc) resolves the same three letters as the relative pronouns hO TI. The latter resolution is also used in the two Robinson and Willker reincarnations of WH available online. I've double-checked to make sure each of the eight appear this way in the 1881 edition of WH's Greek NT.
Here are the eight instances, in which the variant renderings are in brackets [hOTI / hO TI], WH followed by UBS/NA, etc:
Lk_10:35 ...KAI EIPEN EPIMELHQHTI AUTOU, KAI [hOTI / hO TI] AN PROSDAPANHSHiS EGW EN TW PANERXESQAI ME APODWSW SOI
Jn_02:05 LEGEI hH MHTHR AUTOU TOIS DIAKONOIS [hOTI / hO TI] AN LEGHi UMIN POIHSATE
Jn_08:25 ...EIPEN AUTOIS hO IHSOUS THN ARXHN [hOTI / hO TI] KAI LALW UMIN;
Jn_14:13 KAI [hOTI / hO TI] AN AITHSHTE EN TWi ONOMATI MOU TOUTO POIHSW, hINA DOCASQHi hO PATHR EN TWi hUIWi
Jn_15:16 ...hINA [hOTI / hO TI] AN AITHSHTE TON PATERA EN TWi ONOMATI MOU DWi hUMIN
Ac_09:06 ALLA ANASTHQI KAI EISELQE EIS THN POLIN, KAI LALHQHSETAI SOI [hOTI / hO TI] SE DEI POIEIN
1Co_16:02 KATA MIAN SABBATOU hEKASTOS hUMWN PAR' hEAUTWi TIQETW QHSAURIZWN [hOTI / hO TI] EAN EUODWTAI...
Col_03:17 KAI PAN [hOTI / hO TI] EAN POIHTE EN LOGWi H EN ERGWi, PANTA EN ONOMATI KURIOU IHSOU...
Obviously most (all?) other editors prefer rendering OTI as hO TI rather than WH's hOTI. But, is there a grammatical case to be made for WH's choices, can the WH text be defended in any or all of these eight places?
I'm not saying that all eight present the same issues, by any means. Four of these have a similar pattern (Lk 10:3, Jn 2:5, Jn 14:1, and Jn 15:1), where WH has the sequence hOTI AN, a sequence not found elsewhere in their version of the GNT. The two Pauline uses have the pattern hOTI EAN, which is attested elsewhere.
If anyone has dealt with this issue before, please let me know where I can look.
Thanks.
Keith Yoder
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