Timo Flink, «Reconsidering the Text of Jude 5,13,15 and 18.», Vol. 20 (2007) 95-125
The text of Jude has been reconstructed recently by two different works to replace the critical text found in the NA27. The Novum Testamentum Editio Critica Maior (ECM) and a monograph by T. Wasserman offer changes to the critical text. I evaluate these suggested changes and offer my own text-critical suggestions. I argue that in Jude 13, 15 and 18 the text should read a)pafri/zonta, pa/ntaj tou\j a)sebei=j, and o3ti e!legon u(mi=n o3ti e)p ) e)sxa/tou tou= xro/nou, respectively. These solutions differ from both the NA27 and the ECM and agree with Wasserman’s reconstruction. I suggest that the «original» reading in Jude 5 was a3pac pa/nta o3ti )Ihsou=j, which none of the above works have.
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The following list of external evidence contains those variants that
have a support of at least one primary, secondary or tertiary witness.
I regard other variant readings as secondary corruption, because it is
improbable that a reading not found in any of the genealogically most
important witnesses would the “originalâ€15. The relevant external infor-
mation looks like this.
ὑμᾶς ἅπαξ πάντα ὅτι ᾽Ιησοῦς ὑμᾶς πάντα ὅτι κÏÏιος ἅπαξ
B // – // – // – ) // – // – // –
πάντα ὅτι κÏÏιος ἅπαξ
ἅπαξ πάντα ὅτι ᾽Ιησοῦς
A 81 // 33c // 2344 // L:V Ä Cyr Ψ // – // – // –
ἡμᾶς πάντα ὅτι ᾽Ιησοῦς ἅπαξ ὑμᾶς τοÏτο ὅτι ὠκÏÏιος ἅπαξ
– // – // 2298 // – L 326 431 // 18 35 1836 1837 2374 // 254
1292 // al
πάντα ὅτι ᾽Ιησοῦς ἅπαξ πάντα ὅτι ὠκÏÏιος ἅπαξ
1739* // 323 665 // 6 93 1881 // pc 2200 // 630 // – // pc
K:SB
πάντα ὅτι ὠ᾽Ιησοῦς ἅπαξ ὑμᾶς ἅπαξ τοÏτο ὅτι κÏÏιος
88 // 915 // – // – – // 1875 // 468 // pm PsOec
ἅπαξ τοÏτο ὅτι ὠκÏÏιος
307 436 453 808 // 1067 // 61 2186 2818
// pc
ἅπαξ ὅτι ὠκÏÏιος
– // 1409 // – // –
ἅπαξ τοÏτο ὅτι κÏÏιος ᾽Ιησοῦς
– // – // 1735 // –
ἅπαξ πάντα ὅτι ὠθεός πάντα ὅτι ὠθεός ἅπαξ
C2 // 623* // 2805 // pc L:Vmss 442 // 621 1845 // 1243 1846 // pc L:T S:Ph
ἅπαξ πάντα(ς) ὅτι ὠθεός Xri/stoj
P72c (P72*)
ἅπαξ τοÏτο ὅτι ὠθεός
– // – // 5 // pc A
The table above shows that the textual history is highly contaminated.
No reading seems superior to all the rest on the basis of the external
evidence alone, though it could be argued that ἅπαξ πάντα ὅτι ᾽Ιησοῦς
looks like a promising candidate (see below). I will deal with each four
questions separately.
(1) Should ὑμᾶς2 be included or excluded? The external evidence is as
follows. The ὑμᾶς2 appears in ) B L 326 431 // 18 35 1836 1837 1875 2374
Of course it is possible that such is the case, no matter how small a change, but one
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aspect of this study is to test the results from the CBGM method used in the ECM, which in
turn cuts the need to go through every possible variant reading in any given witness.