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Rom 2:17 — Εἰ δὲ σύ / Ἴδε σύ

Rom 2:17 · reading in

Ἴδε σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ καὶ ἐπαναπαύῃ τῷ νόμῳ καὶ καυχᾶσαι ἐν θεῷ

BSB: “Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;”

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

Εἰ δὲ σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ

Ei de sy Ioudaios eponomazē

But if you call yourself a Jew

ℵ · A · B · D* · E · K · 1908mg (Tisch. 47) · it^d · it^e · it^g · vg · syrsch · cop · arm · aeth · Clement · Didymus · Euthalius · John of Damascus · Theophylact · Origen (Lat.) · Ambrosiaster

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Alternative 1

Ἴδε σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ

Ide sy Ioudaios eponomazē

Look, you call yourself a Jew

Dc · L · syr^p · Chrysostom · Theodoret · Oecumenius · Theodore of Mopsuestia

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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: Εἰ δὲ σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ
Confidence: high (team scale)
Significance: translation
Byz / TR: Ἴδε σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ἐπονομάζῃ — open RP2018

Print Εἰ δέ with high confidence. The early witnesses of all text types agree, and ἴδε is explained by itacism and as a smoothing of the anacoluthon. The sense is close either way, but εἰ δέ makes 2:17–24 one long accusation.

Evidence

7 sources

Editions (checked 2026-10-29): SBLGNT, RP2018, TR (local files); WH/Treg/NA28 from the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 by reference only. Sigla: as in STYLE_GUIDE §2.3. Minuscules are Gregory–Aland numbers, with Tischendorf's Pauline number once in parentheses ("Tisch."); * = first hand, superscript ᶜ (stored as c, e.g. Dc) = a later corrector; full key in src.tischendorf-8. Minuscules whose Gregory–Aland number is not verified are summarized, not listed. Tischendorf names mainly dissenting witnesses, so some majuscules on the other side are inferred from his silence.

SBLGNT, WH and Treg read Εἰ δέ; RP2018 and TR read Ἴδε.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), pp. 372–373): εἰ δέ: ℵ A B D* E K, 1908mg, many minuscules, the Latin d e g and vg, syrsch, cop, arm, aeth, Clement, Didymus, Euthalius, John of Damascus, Theophylact, Origen (Lat.), Ambrosiaster. ἴδε: Dc L and many others, syr^p, Chrysostom, Theodoret, Oecumenius. Tischendorf quotes Theodore of Mopsuestia, who read ἴδε as a statement, not a question: οὐ κατ᾽ ἐρώτησιν … ἀλλὰ κατὰ ἀπόφασιν. K is cited as Tischendorf prints it.

Internal: ΕΙΔΕ and ΙΔΕ sounded alike (itacism). εἰ δέ opens a long condition (2:17–20) with no main clause, the question of 2:21 taking its place. ἴδε removes that break in construction, so εἰ δέ is the harder reading.

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Rom 2:17 — Εἰ δὲ σύ / Ἴδε σύ

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