Re: textual variant in 1 Cor. 4:6

From: Byron P. Knutson (byronk@open.org)
Date: Sat Feb 20 1999 - 04:33:27 EST


If I remember correctly, the textual problem here was explained to us in a
textual criticism class. The argument went something like this: TO MH
hUPER hA GEGRAPTAI (= the MH over the alpha has been written) was a scribes
marginal note because he had made an error in leaving out the MH (or else he
discovered someone else's error and corrected it.) In any case, the
argument is that the MH in the following phrase hINA MH hEIS hUPER TOU hENOS
FUSIOUSQE KATA TOU hETEROU. was originally something like this:

     MH
hINA hEIS hUPER TOU hENOS FUSIOUSQE KATA
       ^
TOU hETEROU. & etc.

If that is true, the the original text he had would have been corrected to
be something like this:

TAUTA DE, ADELFOI, METESCHMATISA EIS EMAUTON KAI APOLLWN DI' hUMAS,
hINA EN hHMIN MAQHTE .... hINA MH hEIS hUPER TOU hENOS FUSIOUSQE KATA TOU
hETEROU.

Thus the MH was inserted over the alph of hINA. Then when this copy of the
text was copied later the marginal note was incorperated right into the
text. At any rate, that's how I remember it.

Byron

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