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Gal 1:15 — — / ὁ θεός

Gal 1:15 · reading in

ὅτε δὲ εὐδόκησεν ὁ ἀφορίσας με ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου καὶ καλέσας διὰ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ

BSB: “But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased”

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Printed reading

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no expressed subject: “when the one who set me apart … was pleased”

B · F · G · 20 · f · g · vg · syrsch · syr^p (text) · Eusebius · Epiphanius · Chrysostom · Theodoret · Irenaeus (Lat.) · Victorinus · Faustus · Ambrosiaster · Jerome · Gaudentius

SBLGNT

Alternative 1

ὁ θεὸς

ho theos

God (as the subject)

ℵ · A · D · E · K · L · P · d · e · cop · syr^p (with asterisk) · arm · aeth · Origen

WHTregNA28 🔒︎ByzTR

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Witness-dates timeline: pending sourcing. The dates are not yet backed by a sourced witness registry, so the timeline is hidden; the witnesses for each reading are listed above.

Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: —
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: translation
Byz / TR: ὁ θεὸς — open RP2018

Editorial decision: print the text without ὁ θεός, with SBLGNT. Confidence medium: B F G, the Latin, and early citations support the shorter text; ℵ A D and most later witnesses have ὁ θεός, which WH brackets and the BSB translates (“God”). Says On either reading God is the one who set Paul apart and called him by his grace.

Evidence

7 sources

Editions: SBLGNT; RP2018 (Byz); Scrivener 1894 (TR). WH, Treg, and NA28 alignment follows the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 is cited by reference only. Sigla: corrector notation follows Tischendorf, as explained in src.tischendorf-8.

The unit is whether ὁ θεός stands after εὐδόκησεν. SBLGNT prints no subject noun (with Holmes and the WH margin, as its apparatus states). WH prints [ὁ θεὸς] in brackets (Westcott–Hort, p. 421, leaf n426); Treg, NA28, RP, and TR have ὁ θεός.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 630, leaf n637 (novumtestamentum02tisc)): the octava prints ὅτε δὲ εὐδόκησεν ὁ ἀφορίσας without ὁ θεός, with B F G, 20, f g vg, the Peshitta and the Harclean text, Eusebius, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Theodoret, the Latin Irenaeus, Victorinus, Faustus, Ambrosiaster, Jerome, Gaudentius, and others. ς (but not Griesbach’s last edition) prefixes ὁ θεός, and Lachmann prints it in brackets, with ℵ A D E K L P and nearly all others, d e, cop, syr^p with an asterisk, arm, aeth, and Origen.

Internal: The shorter text leaves the subject to the participles; a scribe could add “God” to make it explicit. Either way the one who set Paul apart and called him is God.

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