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γνώσεως, 21. ἦν τινες " ἐπαγγελλόμενοι "περὶ * τὴν "πίστιν 7 ἠστό- w τ Tim. ii. Ν 10,
χησαν. Ἡ χάρις ped” ὑμῶν.ὶ
x1 ΤΠ, 1, 19, 2 Tim. iii. 8.
y Seer Tim.
1. 0. "So NAFerGP, 17, 6 (vobiscum t tecum) boh.; μετὰ σοῦ DKL, d,e, ἢ νρ., syrr., arm. ; sah. om. ἡ xap.—tpav; add ἀμήν ScDbcKLP, e, f, vg., syrr., boh.
δ, 17 add πρὸς Τιμόθεον a.
To this D adds, B, sim@arly FG. A, etc., have πρὸς Τιμόθεον a
ἐπληρώθη - ἄρχεται πρὸς Τιμόθεον ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Λαοδικείας ; to which
K adds, ἥτις ἐστὶ μητρόπολις Φρυγίας τῆς Πακατιανῆς, similarly L. P has a sub- scription like that of A, substituting Νικοπόλεως for Λαοδικείας.
16), is not real knowledge. The ἀντιθέ- σεις then of this spurious knowledge would be the dialectical distinctions and niceties of the false teachers. Perhaps inconsistencies is what is meant. For an example of ἀντίθετος in this sense, see Moulton and Milligan, Exposttor, vii., v. 275. Something more definite than (a) opposttions, i.e., objections of opponents (so Chrys. Theoph. and von Soden, who compares ἀντιδιατιθεμένους, 2 Tim. ii. 25) is implied; but certainly not (δ) the formal categorical oppositions between the Law and the Gospel alleged by Marcion.
Ver. 21. τινες: See note on i. 53:
ἐπαγγελλόμενοι : See note on ii. 10.
περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἠστόχησαν: See notes on i. 6, 19, and reff.
μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν: An argument in support of the pera σοῦ of the Received Text is that μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν is indisputably the right
reading in the corresponding place in 2 Tim. and Tit., and might have crept in here by assimilation. Ell. has reason on his side when he maintains that the plural here is not sufficient to prove that the epistle as a whole was intended for the Church. ‘“ The study of papyri letters will show that the singular and the plural alternated in the same document with apparently no distinction of meaning” (Moulton, Expositor, vi., vii. 107). The colophon in the T.R., “The First to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana,”’ has a double interest: as an echo of the notion that this is the Epistle from Laodicea (Col. iv. 16), a notion sanctioned by Theophyl.; and the men- tion of Phrygia Pacatiana proves that the author of the note lived after the fourth century, towards the close of which that name for Phrygia Prima came into use.