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Rom 4:8 — οὗ / ᾧ

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Byzantine · RP2018 text for Rom 4:8 is not in the library yet.

BSB: “Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.””

Byzantine · RP2018: Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont, The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2018. Public domain (Unlicense). · BSB (public domain)

Printed reading

μακάριος ἀνὴρ οὗ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν

makarios anēr hou ou mē logisētai kyrios hamartian

blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count

ℵ* · B · D* · E · G

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Alternative 1

μακάριος ἀνὴρ ᾧ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν

makarios anēr hō ou mē logisētai kyrios hamartian

blessed is the man to whom the Lord will never count sin

ℵc · A · C · Dc · F · K · L · P · it^d · it^e · it^f · it^g · vg · cop · Origen (Lat.) · Cyril · Theodoret · Euthalius · John of Damascus

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Decision

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Printed: μακάριος ἀνὴρ οὗ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν
Confidence: medium (team scale)
Significance: minor
Byz / TR: μακάριος ἀνὴρ ᾧ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται κύριος ἁμαρτίαν — open RP2018

Print οὗ with medium confidence; Tischendorf 8 prints it too. It is the reading of ℵ* B D* and of Swete's LXX text, and ᾧ looks like assimilation to 4:6. The sense is the same: the Lord does not count the man's sin against him. The quotation itself is treated by the Hebrew Scholar (Rom 4:7–8: Ps 32:1–2 (LXX 31:1–2) and the verb shared with Gen 15:6).

Evidence

7 sources

Editions (checked 2026-10-30): SBLGNT, RP2018, TR (local files); WH/Treg/NA28 from the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 by reference only. Sigla: 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 (Tischendorf's notation); 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, Treg, NA28, and Tischendorf 8 (p. 381) read οὗ; RP2018 and TR read ᾧ.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 381, leaf n388): οὗ: ℵ* B D* E G and one minuscule. ᾧ: ℵc A C Dc F K L P and most others, the Latin d e f g and vg, cop, Origen (Lat.), Cyril, Theodoret, Euthalius, John of Damascus. Tischendorf adds that the printed (Roman) LXX and Clement have ᾧ, while ℵ A B of the LXX have οὗ.

LXX: Swete's Ps 31:2 prints οὗ οὐ μὴ λογίσηται; his apparatus gives ᾧ for a corrector of ℵ and for R* (vol. 2, p. 250, read on the scan).

Internal: ᾧ matches the dative with λογίζεται in 4:6 (ᾧ ὁ θεὸς λογίζεται) and the dative usual with λογίζομαι, so a change to it is easy to explain. The same split runs through the LXX witnesses.

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