Wednesday, December 20, 2023

On the text of Eph 3:21 in P132 (P. Oxy. 5258) (third century)

 

Textual character Though the text is too small to determine its textual character, the papyrus offers the variant in Ephesians 3:21 that lacks και, which yields the rendering “to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus” (instead of “to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus”). (Philip Wesley Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, 2 vols. [3d ed; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Academic, 2019], 2:197)

 

The text of Eph 3:21 in P132:

 

αυτω η δοξα εν τη εκκλησ]ια εν χρω[ιυ [εις πασαι τας] γενεας του αιωνος των] αιωνων [αμην (Ibid.)