Claude Perera, «Burn or boast? A Text Critical Analysis of 1 Cor 13:3.», Vol. 18 (2005) 111-128
The dearth of external evidence in addition to the support of arguments
from a transcriptional probability perspective eliminates the variants kauqh|=
and kauqh/setai in 1 Cor 13:3. Besides having a syntactic problem, the variant
kauqh/swmai is a theologically motivated scribal intervention. Historical
facts, hinder the candidature of kauqh/somai and a syntagmatic approach
does not favour either kauqh/somai or kauxh/swmai. In Paul boasting is ambivalent.
"To boast in the Lord" is something positive. Furthermore, Petzer
justifies kauxh/swmai from a structural point of view. On textual, grammatical
and historical grounds kauxh/swmai cannot be a later addition.
Appendix 2
Evidence of the Versions and that of the Fathers for 1 Cor 13:3
Variant 2nd/3rd Centuries 4th/5th Centuries 6th/7th Centuries 8th/9th Centuries Late Centuries
Gothicmg (3th c.); Jerome, Ethiopic-Rome
Text: Some mss of the
Greek mss according to Edition (16th c.)
καυχ σωµαι whole Coptic (3rd c.),
Clement of Alex., Jerome, Pelagius’
Origen (3rd c.). Com. (5th c.)
Var. 1: Origen (3rd c.) Chrysostom, Cyril of Damascus (8th c.)
καυϑ σωµαι Alex, Theodoret (5th c.)
Ambrosiaster, Basil; Marginal reading Ethiopic - Pell Platt
Var. 2: Some of the entire
Gothic text, Jacob-Nisi- of Syriac Harkel, & Praetorius (16th c.)
καυϑ σωµαι Latin tradition
Burn or Boast? A Text Critical Analysis of 1 Cor 13:3
bis, Aphraates, Ephraem Maximus the Confessor
(2nd c.), Tertullian,
Cyprian, Origen, (4th c.); Greek and Latin (7th c.)
mss of Jerome, Cyril of
Methodius De
Alexandria, Chrysostom,
Rebaptismate
(3rd c.), Basil (4th c.) Euthalius, Theodoret,
Armenean v., Augustine,
Petilianusaccording to Augustine
(5th c.)
Var. 3: καυϑ Syriac Harkel (7th c.)
Var. 4: Clement Alex. (3rd c.) Peshitta (5th c.) Syriac Harkel (7th c.)
καυϑ σωµαι
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