The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Part 2 / edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt.

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1899
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Credit: The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Part 2 / edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. κα\ ras χΐψας W-H., with AB, and this may have been the reading of the papyrus. αυτοις ras χαράς . . . πλΐυραν αυτόν (EGKL, &C., T.R.) IS excluded. 5 ff. There is a difficulty as to the number of lines lost after 1. 5. The corresponding lacuna in the recto consists of three lines, but there would certainly be room for four on this side of the leaf if that number seemed more convenient. If all the longer variants are assigned to the papyrus, namely, ο ιησους before πάλιν (AB, &c.) and αποστέλλω instead of ■πίμπω (DL, one of the later hands in N, &c), four lines will be produced, consisting of twenty-five, twenty-seven, twenty-five, and twenty-four letters respectively. On the other hand the lacuna can be satisfactorily reduced to three lines by keeping the shorter version of verse 21 and following in verse 22 the reading of which omits the words και τούτο ΐίττων. In view of the general agreement of the papyrus with the latter is slightly the more probable hypothesis. 12. The letters in the lacuna must have been rather cramped if the papyrus had the ordinary reading here. Perhaps Se was written above the line, like και in 1. 2 ; it is omitted in a and e. 14, 15. It is clear that the papyrus agreed with Ν in placing ow before ηΚθή>, and Omitting άλλοι before μαθηται. The ordinary reading ουκ ην μετ' αυτών ore rj\6ev [ό] Ίί^σοΟϊ. i'Xeyov ουν αυτω ol άλλοι μαθηται would make 1. 14 considerably too short, and 1. 15 impossibly long. 17. Here again there can be little doubt of the agreement of the papyrus with Ν in the omission of αυτού, which is read by W-H. after χΐρ&ιν with the rest of the MSS. The lacuna of this line and the preceding one are of the same size; and even when αυτόν is omitted the number of letters lost in this line will be one more than in 1. 16. CCIX. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Chap. I. Plate II. 25-1 χ 199 cm. The first seven verses of the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, written in a large rude uncial—no doubt a schoolboy's exercise. There are several mistakes in spelling, and part of verse 6 is omitted. Below are two lines in a cursive hand which have no apparent sense or connexion with what precedes. The cursive writing can be assigned with certainty to the first half of the fourth century A.D., and the fact that the papyrus was found tied up with a contract dated in 316 A. D., and other documents of the same period, tends to fix the date more precisely. There is no reason to think that the uncial writing is appreci- ably earlier than the cursive. The contractions usual in theological MSS. occur. A ΠΑΥΛΟΟ ΔΟΥΛΟΟ ΧΡΥ ΪΤΓΫ KAHTOC ATTOCTOAOC- A<i>U)PIC M6N0C €IC €ΥΑΓΤ6ΛΙ0Ν ΘΫ 0 ΠΡΟΕΤΤΗΓΓΈΙΛΑΤΟ ΔΙΑ Τ[00]Ν ΠΡΟ) ΦΗΤωΝ ΑΥΤΟΥ 6Ν ΓΡ[Α]ΦΑΙΟ ΑΓΈΙΑΙΟ Π6ΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΫΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΥ 6Κ CTT[e]PMATOC ΔΑΥΔ' ΚΑΤΑ CAPKA TOY OPIC06N 5 TOC ΫΫ ΘΥ €Ν ΔΥΝΑΜ6Ι ΚΑΤΑ ΠΝΑ AflOOCCYNHC €Ξ ANAC
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