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3JOH. 10] SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES. 125
Thus the twofold perversion is accounted for, by which the true text as
in the Polyglots,
(and so Etzel before them, " quandocunque venero
recordabor") with 1|>, first pers. fut. pe., and jOll}, first pers. fut.
aph., has been corrupted into that of 8 and Pococke, followed by
Gutbir and all later editors, except Lee and the American though
Pococke (see
his note in Zoc.)
had pointed out its doubtfulness.
As regards (a), however, it is to be added that 1 (as also 17 and
19) writes ^Z^J apparently representing ZXOrj while they retain the
true jOTlf, giving thus a reading lav fXBy, inrofj.vrja^ which is intelligible,
though otherwise unsupported. As regards (6), the two copies
above excepted, 9, 18, agree with 8 in dropping the preformative 1,
but with the verb in plur., O JO1L. Both, however, write ]i]y (
~ ]1] j),
as if reading cav 2A.0W, vTro/xv^o-^re unmeaningly. Arab, also represents
virofjivrjarOTjTf,
but (more consistently) with lav ZXOy preceding.
But it is not always clear what tenses and persons are indicated by
the points in our copies, and this caution applies especially to 1 and
its reading
]L\J.
Harkl. has |J| jOllSD |2( .(, apparently intending the same sense
*
^fc \
as our text. Though \L\ might stand (in
it and in some of our
codices) for |Z| (ptcp. poel), it can hardly be so meant, for the ptcp.
would be ambiguous as between the meanings !A.0u> and eA.%, and a
personal pronoun would be required after it (whether ]j] or OO1).
Ib. The reading of all the editions, Polyglots included, J^CO (
= eVtcrK7TTo/xfos,
or (as tier. 5 supr.) e/jya^o/^evos),
is untenable.
It is attested
by but five, most of them untrustworthy, copies (4, 7, 8, 10, 15). It
is unsuited to the context, it can hardly be construed at all, and it in no
wise represents the Gr. Xvapuv,
which (though a-n-. Xey. here in N.T.,*
and abnormally used as an act. verb [C subjoins eiY])
is the undisputed
reading of the Gr. authorities.
to propose conjecturally the correction
Dr. Field seems to have been the first
)Acb, which stands in place of
JAQQ in Harkl. Elsewhere, = >AflD usually /caToAv'co (as in Pesh. N.T.
often, and in Harkl. now and then) ;
but in Syr.-Hxp.
it is the
rendering of 7rapa\a\u (as Ps. xliii [xliv] 17 [16], and of KaraXaXw,
Mai. iii.
13, 16).
In this sense it
may be accepted as fairly representing
, understood as " to prate maliciously [against]."
This correction
is now amply verified by the evidence of all our copies of Philox. except
* But we have \vapos, 1 Tim. v. 13.