The Genuineness of the First Epistle, Early Opinions regarding Clement and his Epistle, VI. RECENT GERMAN THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE,. 519 Philippi's Dogmatic Theology of the Lutheran Church, Fabri's Letters against Materialism, . A Defence of the Principal Doctrines of Christianity, Evidences of the Truth of Christianity incidentally supplied THE BIBLIOTHECA SACRA. ARTICLE I. AN EXAMINATION OF THE VARIOUS READINGS OF 1 TIMOTHY III. 16. BY REV. WILLIAM H. WARD, UTICA, N. Y. Καὶ ὁμολογουμένως μέγα ἐστὶ τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας μυστήριον· θεὸς ἐφανερώθη ἐν σαρκί, ἐδικαιώθη ἐν πνεύματι, ὤφθη ἀγγέλοις, ἐκηρύχθη ἐν ἔθνεσιν, ἐπιστεύθη ἐν κόσμῳ, ἀνελήφθη ἐν δόξῃ. INSTEAD of Deos in this passage many editors read ős, and some writers have defended ő. The latter reading may at once be dismissed as untenable, not being supported by any such authority as either of the others, and being plainly a grammatical variation, introduced for the purpose of relieving an apparent impropriety in the gender of os. The question then rests between ős and Feós. Having endeavored carefully to investigate all the authorities for either reading, as far as they are accessible to us, we propose to give the result of this labor in such a form that the reader can easily decide for himself between the two readings. While Deos in this passage supports the divinity of Christ, this is not a doctrine which rests on any single text. If the result of criticism could be proved adverse to this reading, it would not affect our general faith. God does not leave such an important doctrine as the Trinity to depend on so few and feeble arguments that a single proof-text more or less makes any appreciable difference in our belief. VOL. XXII. No. 85.-JAN. 1865. |