Sometimes there are those days that you find little imprecisions in someone else’s work (and these make me feel slightly better about my own failings). So this afternoon I found the following two.
I got a question asking whether Metzger or the ECM got it wrong on Acts 11:23, the presence or absence of the article after τὴν χάριν. In his CommentaryMetzger writes that the article ‘is absent from ℵ A B 927', whilst the ECM says that these are the witnesses that have it.. This is clearly one of those moments where you write the exact opposite of what you know is correct. Because it is only a little later that Metzger says ‘it can be argued that τήν is a pedantic insertion made by Alexandrian scribes’ by which he cannot mean anything else than the scribe behind ℵ A B.
Just for your peace of mind:
Just for your peace of mind:
The second imprecision I found in NA28 in the apparatus to John 13:26. The question is here whether or not the article stands before Ἰησοῦς. Amongst others 579 is cited as probably reading a text without ὁ (579vid).
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There is a nasty fold running through the relevant letters, the first word of the last line is visible till the final upstroke of the alpha/iota of ἀποκρίνεται. Then the next visible letters are the ις of the nomen sacrum Ἰησοῦς. Is there space for an article? I think there is, or at least there should be. I think the rough breathing of the article is pretty clear. And Elijah Hixson pointed out that also on the line above an omicron is missing in the fold. Being the digital humanist he is, he suggested to measure the width of the fold also on the other side of the page, but I think by now I knew enough. Instead of citing 579vid for the absence of the article, perhaps it should be cited as 579vid for its presence.EDIT: Solved! See the reply from Jean Putmans below.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
