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John Mill's 1707 Greek New Testament was estimated to contain some 30,000 variants in its accompanying textual apparatus [1] which was based on "nearly 100 [Greek] manuscripts." [ 2 ] Peter J. Gurry puts the number of non-spelling variants among New Testament manuscripts around 500,000, though he acknowledges his estimate is higher than all ...
The First Epistle of Clement (Ancient Greek: Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους, romanized: Klēmentos pros Korinthious, lit. 'Clement to Corinthians') is a letter addressed to the Christians in the city of Corinth. The work is attributed to Clement I, the fourth bishop of Rome and almost certainly written by him. [1]
1 Corinthians 1:1–21 in Codex Amiatinus from the 8th century 1 Corinthians 1:1–2a in Minuscule 223 from the 14th century. The epistle may be divided into seven parts: [30] Salutation (1:1–3) Paul addresses the issue regarding challenges to his apostleship and defends the issue by claiming that it was given to him through a revelation from ...
The Sahidic translation was quite free, while the Bohairic translation was very slavish, tending to translate every word, even using grammatical borrowings. 52 manuscripts are bilingual and they contain – in addition to the Coptic text-type – the Greek text-type; 2 manuscripts are trilingual and they contain the following text-types: Greek ...
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The word agape received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted Christian love or charity (1 Corinthians 13:1–8), or even God himself. The expression "God is love" (ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν) occurs twice in the New Testament: 1 John 4:8;16.
"possession for eternity" (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.22; "κτῆμά τε ἐς αἰεὶ [ktêma te es aieí]" in the original). Κύριε ἐλέησον Kúrie eléēson "Lord have mercy" — a very common phrase in Greek Orthodox liturgies, and also used in Greek in the Roman Catholic Mass.
1 Corinthians 13:8 seems to contradict the characterization of the true Christian as one who knows; but to Clement, knowledge vanishes only in that it is subsumed by the universal love expressed by the Christian in his reverence for his Creator. [30] Following Socrates, he argues that vice arises from a state of ignorance, not from intention ...