Monday, November 18, 2019

Acts 20:28 variant: Church of [the Lord and] God

Image: The Complutensian Polyglot at Acts 20:28 reads: ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ
Acts 20:28 Church of God. Here the majority of the Greek manuscripts read, Church of the Lord and God. The Latin Vulgate, however, and the Textus Receptus read, Church of God, which is also the reading of [the critical text, as well as] Aleph B, and other ancient witnesses. (E. F. Hills, The King James Version Defended (p. 201)

Church of God = ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ
Church of the Lord and God = ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ


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