WH = B. F. Westcott/F. J. A. Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek (Cambridge/London 1881). The judgment of Vincent (xxxvii) in 1897, “The epistle presents no textual questions of importance,” found assent by Bockmuehl 40 a century later. Textual matters are regularly taken up in the NOTES, often, because of constraints of space, by referring to NA27, though one would like to spell out for the general reader MS names, dates, etc. The critical principle of preferring the shorter reading is
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