Luke 19:41-48 - Revision of the Textus Receptus

The gospel according to Luke

Chapter 19

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41. και ως ηγγισεν ιδων την πολιν εκλαυσεν επ αυτην[1] And when he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,

42. λεγων οτι ει εγνως και συ και γε εν τη ημερα σου ταυτη τα προς ειρηνην σου νυν δε εκρυβη απο οφθαλμων σου saying, “If you had known, even you, even at least[2] in this day of yours[3] the things that make for your[4] peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

43. οτι ηξουσιν ημεραι επι σε και περιβαλουσιν[5] οι εχθροι σου χαρακα σοι και περικυκλωσουσιν σε και συνεξουσιν σε παντοθεν For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

44. και εδαφιουσιν σε και τα τεκνα σου εν σοι και ουκ αφησουσιν εν σοι λιθον επι λιθω[6] ανθ ων ουκ εγνως τον καιρον της επισκοπης σου and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. And they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

45. και εισελθων εις το ιερον ηρξατο εκβαλλειν τους πωλουντας εν αυτω και αγοραζοντας And entering the temple, he began to drive out those who bought and[7] sold in it,

46. λεγων αυτοις γεγραπται ο οικος μου οικος προσευχης εστιν υμεις δε αυτον εποιησατε σπηλαιον ληστων saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer[8],’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

47. και ην διδασκων το καθ ημεραν εν τω ιερω οι δε αρχιερεις και οι γραμματεις εζητουν αυτον απολεσαι και οι πρωτοι του λαου And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were seeking to destroy him.

48. και ουχ ευρισκον το τι ποιησωσιν ο λαος γαρ απας εξεκρεματο αυτου ακουων And they could not find what they might do, for all the people were clinging to him and listening.

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[1] NA-Text reads “αυτην” (accusative instead of dative), which is supported by codices א, A, B, D and Θ. The TR is supported by the Byzantine manuscripts and Theophylact. The accusative has been adopted in the Greek text.

[2] NA-Text omits “even at least” (Gr.: “και γε”). The Alexandrian construction appears to be a simplification.

[3] NA-Text omits “of yours”.

[4] NA-Text omits “your” and renders “the peace”.

[5] NA-Text reads “παρεμβαλουσιν”. Same verbal tense, different spelling.

[6] NA-Text reads “λιθον” (accusative instead of dative).

[7] NA-Text omits “bought and”, which is due to a scribal error in the Alexandrian transmission line caused by visual homoeuteleuton (πωλουντας εν αυτω και αγοραζοντας, thus missing “bought and”). Harmonization to Matthew 21:12 and Mark 11:15 to account for the longer reading is unlikely, because it is easier to see a simple scribal error in one transmission line than positing that everybody in all other transmission lines and the Latin scriptures have all come up with the same idea of harmonizing these passages.

[8] NA-Text reads “And my house shall be a house of prayer”.

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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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