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Rom 5:14 — ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας / ἐπὶ τοὺς ἁμαρτήσαντας

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BSB: “Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.”

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

ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας

epi tous mē hamartēsantas

over those who did not sin (in the way that Adam transgressed)

Irenaeus (Lat.) · Athanasius · Cyril · Diodore · Theodore of Mopsuestia · Acacius · Gennadius · Chrysostom · Theodoret · John of Damascus · Archelaus · Jerome · Augustine

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Alternative 1

ἐπὶ τοὺς ἁμαρτήσαντας

epi tous hamartēsantas

over those who sinned (in the way that Adam transgressed)

it^d* · Origen (Lat.) · Ambrosiaster

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας
Confidence: high (team scale)
Significance: meaning
Byz / TR: ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας — open RP2018

Print μή with high confidence. The omission is late and mainly Latin. It changes the sense: with μή, death reigned even over those whose sin was not, like Adam's, the breach of a stated command (note.language.Rom.5.13-Rom.5.14.ellogeitai-typos).

Evidence

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Editions (checked 2026-10-30): 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 (Tischendorf's notation); full key in src.tischendorf-8. Minuscules whose Gregory–Aland number is not verified are summarized, not listed. Witnesses are listed only where Tischendorf names them.

SBLGNT, NA28, WH, Treg, RP2018, TR, and Tischendorf 8 (p. 388) read μή.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 388, leaf n395): μή is omitted by three minuscules and one lectionary, the Latin d*, Origen (Lat.), Ambrosiaster, and Latin manuscripts known to Augustine and Ambrosiaster. Tischendorf names no Greek manuscript for μή; he cites Augustine's report that the Greek codices have it, and Irenaeus (Lat.), Athanasius, Cyril, Diodore, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Acacius, Gennadius, Chrysostom, Theodoret, John of Damascus, Archelaus, and Jerome.

Internal: the omission makes death reign only over those who sinned as Adam did, which sits poorly with 5:12 ("all sinned") and looks like a correction.

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