Friday, June 20, 2025

Philip Wesley Comfort on Hebrews 1:3

  

Hebrews

1:3 | (added words in bold)
by himself
cleansed sins

 

Original Text: καθαρισμον των αμαρτιων (cleansed sins). This may be the original reading according to several early MSS (א A B), as well as D1 H* P Ψ 33.

 

Textual Ga-filling: Other MSS adds δι εαυτου (by himself). This is the reading in the earliest MS (P46), as well as D* Hc 0243 1739 Maj. The textual evidence is divided; either reading could be original. But if the reading of א et al., is original, “by himself” is the product of natural gap-filling. (Philip Wesley Comfort, A Commentary on Textual Additions to the New Testament [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, Inc., 2017], 139)

 

 

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