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Rom 8:38 — ἐνεστῶτα … μέλλοντα … δυνάμεις / δυνάμεις … ἐνεστῶτα … μέλλοντα

Rom 8:38 · reading in

πεπεισμαι γαρ οτι ουτε θανατος ουτε ζωη ουτε αγγελοι ουτε αρχαι ουτε δυναμεις ουτε ενεστωτα ουτε μελλοντα

BSB: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,”

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

οὔτε ἀρχαὶ οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα οὔτε μέλλοντα οὔτε δυνάμεις

oute archai oute enestōta oute mellonta oute dynameis

nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers

ℵ · A · B · C · D · E · F · G · 1908 · it^d · it^e · it^f · it^g · am · fu · tol · harl* · cop · syr^p · arm · aeth · Origen · Origen (Lat.) · Eusebius · Ephraem · Cyril · John of Damascus · Hilary · Augustine

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Alternative 1

οὔτε ἀρχαὶ οὔτε δυνάμεις οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα οὔτε μέλλοντα

oute archai oute dynameis oute enestōta oute mellonta

nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come

K · L · vgcle · demid · harl** · syrsch · go · Chrysostom · Theodoret · Theophylact · Oecumenius

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Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: οὔτε ἀρχαὶ οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα οὔτε μέλλοντα οὔτε δυνάμεις
Confidence: high (team scale)
Significance: minor
Byz / TR: οὔτε ἀρχαὶ οὔτε δυνάμεις οὔτε ἐνεστῶτα οὔτε μέλλοντα — open RP2018

Print δυνάμεις after μέλλοντα with high confidence. The list and its sense are the same in both orders; the powers are discussed in note.language.Rom.8.31-Rom.8.39.tis-katakrinon-archai.

Evidence

6 sources

Editions (checked 2026-11-01): SBLGNT, RP2018, TR (local files); WH/Treg/NA28 from the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 by reference only. Sigla: as in STYLE_GUIDE §2.3; corrector notation and full key in src.tischendorf-8. Minuscules are Gregory–Aland numbers, with Tischendorf's Pauline number once in parentheses ("Tisch."); those not verified are counted, not listed. Witnesses are listed only where Tischendorf names them.

SBLGNT, NA28, WH, Treg, and Tischendorf 8 (p. 408) put οὔτε δυνάμεις after μέλλοντα; RP2018 and TR put it after ἀρχαί.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 408, leaf n415): as listed in the readings; the first also has five more minuscules besides 1908 (Tisch. 47) (D* has the singular δύναμις; arm in Zohrab's edition), the second most others. One minuscule omits οὔτε δυνάμεις. On οὔτε ἐξουσίαι after ἀρχαί, see the box line.

Internal: the later order joins the powers to the angels and rulers; the earlier, separated order is harder and is more likely to have been tidied.

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Rom 8:38 — ἐνεστῶτα … μέλλοντα … δυνάμεις / δυνάμεις … ἐνεστῶτα … μέλλοντα

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