Matthew 7:15-23 - Revision of the Textus Receptus

The gospel according to Matthew

Chapter 7

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15. Προσέχετε δὲ[1] ἀπὸ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν, οἵτινες ἔρχονται πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν ἐνδύμασι προβάτων ἔσωθεν δέ εἰσιν λύκοι ἅρπαγες. 7“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. 16. Ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. μήτι συλλέγουσιν ἀπὸ ἀκανθῶν σταφυλήν[2] ἢ ἀπὸ τριβόλων σῦκα; By their fruits you will know them. Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? 17. Οὕτως πᾶν δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖ, τὸ δὲ σαπρὸν δένδρον καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖ. Likewise, every good tree bears good fruits, but the bad tree bears bad fruits. 18. Οὐ δύναται δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖν, οὐδὲ δένδρον σαπρὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖν. A good tree cannot bear bad fruits, neither can a bad tree bear good fruits. 19. Πᾶν δένδρον μὴ ποιοῦν καρπὸν καλὸν ἐκκόπτεται καὶ εἰς πῦρ βάλλεται. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.   20. Ἄρα γε ἀπὸ τῶν καρπῶν αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεσθε αὐτούς. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them. 21. Οὐ πᾶς ὁ λέγων μοι, Κύριε κύριε εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀλλʼ ὁ ποιῶν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν [3] οὐρανοῖς. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22. Πολλοὶ ἐροῦσίν μοι ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ· Κύριε κύριε, οὐ τῷ σῷ ὀνόματι προεφητεύσαμεν,[4] καὶ τῷ σῷ ὀνόματι δαιμόνια ἐξεβάλομεν, καὶ τῷ σῷ ὀνόματι δυνάμεις πολλὰς ἐποιήσαμεν; Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 23. Καὶ τότε ὁμολογήσω αὐτοῖς ὅτι Οὐδέποτε ἔγνων ὑμᾶς. Ἀποχωρεῖτε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν. Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’ [1] NA-Text and Vg-St omit “δε” (and): א B 0250 565 1424 syrp syrc copsa(mss) copmae Justin (Dialogue with Trypho, chapter 35) Chrysostom (homily 23) Jerome Augustine (letter 44:2:4) Bede Diatessaron | TR: C K L W Δ Θ ƒ1 ƒ13 33 579 700 892 1241 Byz itf itq syrh copsa(mss) copbo Theophylact. The conjunction could have been lost by visual homoeoteleuton (προσεχετε δε, thus missing “and”) or naturally added once it occurs 485 times in the gospel of Matthew. It is not safe to remove the conjunction from the Greek text. [2] NA-Text and Vg-St read “σταφυλας”, literally “grapes” instead of “grape” (Latin equivalent: “uvas”): א B 0250 ƒ1 892 syrh cop | TR: C K L W Δ Θ ƒ13 565 579 700 1241 1424 Byz Theophylact. The Alexandrian text is likely showing a scribal conformation to the parallel “figs” in the verse. Harmonization to Luke 6:44 in the Byzantine text is less likely once the Lukan phrase was not imported into the gospel of Matthew. [3] NA-Text adds “τοις”. [4] NA-Text reads “επροφητευσαμεν”, just a spelling difference, but meaning the same thing.

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Notes:

1. Text in red letters are places where the original reading in the Textus Receptus has been revised and corrected;

2. The English translation used as a reference is the WEB brought to conformity as literal as possible to the Textus Receptus. The end product though is not the WEB or a revised WEB and it should not be called WEB. The content of this post is freely available to everyone and it is not supposed to be copyrighted;

3. TR: Textus Receptus. This text is not copyrighted;

4. NA-Text: Nestle-Aland text commonly known as critical text;

5. M-Text: Majority Text; 

6. M-Text^RP - Majority Text compiled by Maurice Robinson & William Pierpont;

6. M-Text^HF - Majority Text compiled by Zane Hodges & Arthur Farstad; 

7. Vg-St: Vulgate of Stuttgart;  

8. WPF³⁵: Wilbur Pickering-family 35;

9. P-Text: Patriarchal Text, also known as Patriarchal Greek New Testament, published by the ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

10. The creator of the variant apparatus available in the VarApp kindly gave me permission to freely use the information contained in the material he put together.

 

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