Saturday, June 21, 2025

Philip Wesley Comfort on Hebrews 7:28

  

7:28 | (added word in bold)
appoints high priests

 

Original Text: GK (appoints priests). This is probably the original reading according to two early MSS (P46vid Ivid), as well as D syrp copsa.

 

Textual Gap-filling: A variant reading καθιστησιν αρχιερεις “appoints high priests” in four early MSS (א A B C), as well as Ψ 33 1739 (so TR and KJV). The manuscript evidence is divided; either reading could be original. But if the second reading is not original, it is the product of scribal-gap filling, where the scribes were influenced by the context of the chapter, which speaks of high priests. (Philip Wesley Comfort, A Commentary on Textual Additions to the New Testament [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel, Inc., 2017], 141)

 

 

To Support this Blog:

 

Patreon

Paypal

Venmo

Amazon Wishlist

Email for Amazon Gift card: ScripturalMormonism@gmail.com

Email for Logos.com Gift Card: IrishLDS87@gmail.com

Blog Archive