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Re: if your brother offends you personally, you must forgive him.

Posted: February 5th, 2024, 4:36 pm
by Jonathan Robie
linjinting wrote: February 5th, 2024, 10:40 am Matthew 18:15, about which the text should be “Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ ὁ ἀδελφός σου, ὕπαγε ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου.” It shouldn’t be “Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ εἰς σὲ ὁ ἀδελφός σου, ὕπαγε ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου.”
What does "should be" mean here?

If I line this up, I see two words that differ between the two variants you list:

Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ ὁ ἀδελφός σου,
Ἐὰν δὲ ἁμαρτήσῃ [εἰς σὲ] ὁ ἀδελφός σου,

The rest seems to be the same:

ὕπαγε ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου.
ὕπαγε ἔλεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου. ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου.

Here are the major text variants:

https://www.greekcntr.org/collation/index.htm
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Most critical editions include εἰς σὲ, which matches the earliest witnesses. There's another variant reading involving καὶ. So what does "should be" mean to you here?

Also, what does "personally" mean to you here? What Greek do you think it matches? Why is the textual variant relevant to your reading?