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Gal 1:4 — ὑπέρ / περί

Gal 1:4 · reading in

τοῦ δόντος ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν ὅπως ἐξέληται ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος αἰῶνος πονηροῦ κατὰ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς ἡμῶν

BSB: “who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,”

TR · Scrivener 1894: F. H. A. Scrivener, The New Testament in the Original Greek according to the Text followed in the Authorised Version (1894); public domain. Accents: "STEP Bible" (https://www.STEPBible.org). Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Accents rebuilt by AISBT from STEP Bible TAGNT (data). · BSB (public domain)

Printed reading

ὑπὲρ

hyper

for, on behalf of

ℵc · B · 17 · 67** · Ignatius (interpolated) · Didymus · Chrysostom · Euthalius (codd.) · Theodoret · John of Damascus · Oecumenius (comm.)

SBLGNTWHNA28 🔒︎TR

Alternative 1

περὶ

peri

for, concerning

ℵ* · A · D · E · F · G · K · L · P · syr^p · Origen · Theophylact · Oecumenius (text)

TregByz

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: ὑπὲρ
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: minor
Byz / TR: περὶ — open RP2018

Editorial decision: print ὑπέρ, with SBLGNT, WH, NA28, and TR. Confidence medium: the uncials are divided, with ℵ* A D on the other side and B with ℵ’s corrector here. Says On either reading Christ gave himself for our sins.

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 the preposition before τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν only. SBLGNT, WH, and NA28 print ὑπέρ, and so does TR; Treg and RP print περί. TR is not a proxy for RP here: they differ. WH prints ὑπὲρ with περὶ in the margin (Westcott–Hort, p. 420, leaf n425).

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 628, leaf n635 (novumtestamentum02tisc)): the octava prints περί, with ℵ* A D E F G K L P, about fifty others, syr^p, Origen, Theophylact, and Oecumenius’s text; the Latin pro peccatis can render either. ς (Griesbach, Scholz) reads ὑπέρ with ℵ in a corrector’s hand, B, 17, 67**, a good number of others, the interpolated Ignatius, Didymus, Chrysostom, manuscripts of Euthalius, Theodoret, Damascene, and Oecumenius’s commentary.

Minor variants (box lines): 1:4 αἰῶνος τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος (SBLGNT, WH, Treg, NA28) / τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος αἰῶνος (RP, TR).

Internal: In this period both prepositions are used with “sins” in the sense “for”; the difference does not change what is said.

SBLGNT CC BY 4.0 WH public domain RP2018 Unlicense TR (Scrivener 1894) public domain Tischendorf⁸ public domain 🔒︎ NA28 Copyrighted Bible Scholarship & Tool CC BY 4.0

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