Matthew 7:24-29 - Revision of the Textus Receptus

The gospel according to Matthew

Chapter 7

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24. Πᾶς οὖν ὅστις ἀκούει μου τοὺς λόγους τούτους καὶ ποιεῖ αὐτούς, ὁμοιώσω αὐτὸν ἀνδρὶ φρονίμῳ, ὅστις ᾠκοδόμησεν τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him[1] to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25. Καὶ κατέβη ἡ βροχὴ καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ποταμοὶ καὶ ἔπνευσαν οἱ ἄνεμοι καὶ προσέπεσον[2] τῇ οἰκίᾳ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ οὐκ ἔπεσεν, τεθεμελίωτο γὰρ ἐπὶ τὴν πέτραν. And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26. Καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀκούων μου τοὺς λόγους τούτους καὶ μὴ ποιῶν αὐτοὺς ὁμοιωθήσεται ἀνδρὶ μωρῷ, ὅστις ᾠκοδόμησεν τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν ἄμμον. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27. Καὶ κατέβη ἡ βροχὴ καὶ ἦλθον οἱ ποταμοὶ καὶ ἔπνευσαν οἱ ἄνεμοι καὶ προσέκοψαν τῇ οἰκίᾳ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ ἔπεσεν, καὶ ἦν ἡ πτῶσις αὐτῆς μεγάλη. And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell, and great was its fall.” 28. Καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε συνετέλεσεν[3] ὁ Ἰησοῦς τοὺς λόγους τούτους, ἐξεπλήσσοντο οἱ ὄχλοι ἐπὶ τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ, And it happened, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,   29. ἦν γὰρ διδάσκων αὐτοὺς ὡς ἐξουσίαν ἔχων καὶ οὐχ ὡς οἱ γραμματεῖς αὐτῶν  for he taught them as one who had authority, and not like their[4] scribes. [1] NA-Text and Vg-St read “will be likened”: א B Z Θ 0281 (ƒ1) ƒ13 33 205 700 892 1071 1241 1365 ita itaur itb itc itff1 itg1 itl vg syrp syrh(mg) syrpal(mss) copsa copmae arm eth geo Diatessaroni Origen Philo-Carpasia Basil Ambrose Didymus Chrysostom Jerome Augustine1/8 Cyril mssaccording to Euthymius | TR: C E G K L W X Δ Π Σ 157 180 565 579 597 1006 1009 1010 1079 1195 1216 1230 1242 1243 1253 1292 1342 1424 1505 1546 1646 2148 2174 Byz itf ith itk itq syrc syrh syrpal(mss) copbo goth slav Cyprian Hilary Lucifer Augustine7/8 Chrysostom Theophylact || Internal evidence suggests that scribal harmonization took place in the Alexandrian text given that “he will be likened” appears in verse 26 (ομοιωθησεται). [2] NA-Text reads “προσεπεσαν” (aorist instead of second aorist). [3] NA-Text reads “ετελεσεν”. Both verbs can mean the same thing with different nuances. [4] NA-Text and Vg-St read “their scribes” instead of “the scribes”: א B C K W Δ Θ Π ƒ1 ƒ13 22 33 372 579 892 1365 al syr cop Diatessaron Augustine Chrysostom | TR: C* L M 565 700 1424 Byz itf Jerome || Internal evidence suggests scribal adjustment in the Byzantine text once “the scribes” is a common reading in the gospels, occurring 26 times versus “their scribes” occurring just once in Luke 5:30, which made this pronoun susceptible to scribal adjustment. Pronoun added.

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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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