The Epistle of Jude
1:22-23
There are many textual variants (see below).
Original Text: εκ πυρος αρπασατε διακρινομενους δε ελεειτε εν φοβος (and snatch some from the
fire, and show mercy with fear to others who have doubts). This is the
reading in the earliest MS (P72).
Textual Gap-filling: There are several variants: (1) and
show mercy to some who have doubts—save them by snatching them form the fire:
and to some show mercy with fear” (B); (2) “and have mercy on some, making a
difference, and others, save with fear, pulling them out of the fire” (Maj; so
KJV); and (3) “and reprove some who have doubts [or, who dispute[ and in fear
save some from fire” (C*); (4) “and show mercy to some who have doubts [or, who
dispute], and save some, snatching them from the fire, and to some show mercy with
fear” (א); (5) “and reprove some who have doubts [or, who dispute], and save
some, snatching them from the fire, and to some show mercy with fear” (A). The short
reading in P72 (which is nearly the same in B) could be original. If
so, the other variants are scribal expansions. (Philip Wesley Comfort, A
Commentary on Textual Additions to the New Testament [Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Kregel, Inc., 2017], 157)
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