The Apparatus

The apparatus has been revised primarily in order to include the readings of NA28. The second edition of the textual apparatus, like the first, provides information about a wide range of textual variants. It records all differences between the text of the SBLGNT and the texts of several selected editions of the Greek NT except for those differences that fall in the category of “orthography and related matters.”2 That is, the apparatus does not take note of differences that are solely a matter of orthographic variation or that involve only elision, crasis, movable ν, interchange between first and second aorist verb endings, and the like. It does record all other differences between the SBL text and the texts of the editions listed below, of which there are now 6,934.3 The following editions are cited for every variation unit:

WH Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek, vol. 1: Text; vol. 2: Introduction [and] Appendix (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1881).

Treg Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, The Greek New Testament, Edited from Ancient Authorities, with their Various Readings in Full, and the Latin Version of Jerome (London: Bagster; Stewart, 1857–1879).

NA28 Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th edition, edited by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (Münster/Westphalia) under the direction of H. Strutwolf (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgellschaft, 2012).

For the Gospels, Acts, Pauline letters, and Revelation, the text of NA28 is the same as that of the NA26–27/UBS3–4 editions, which all print the identical Greek text.

For the Catholic letters, the text of NA28 is identical to that of the second edition of Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, IV: The Catholic Letters, ed. B. Aland, K. Aland, G. Mink, H. Strutwolf, and K. Wachtel (2nd edition; Stuttgart: Deutsche Biblegesellschaft, 2012).

RP The New Testament in the Original Greek: Byzantine Textform 2005, compiled and arranged by Maurice A. Robinson and William G. Pierpont (Southborough, Mass.: Chilton, 2005).

The following editions are cited only when they differ from NA28:

NA27 Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, edited by B. Aland, K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, and B. M. Metzger (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993. This edition is cited explicitly only in the Catholic Letters, where it represents the text of the NA26–27/UBS3–4 editions (which all print the identical Greek text).

NIV Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski, A Reader’s Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003).4

Occasionally a marginal reading of WH or Treg or the text of another edition is cited, usually in support of a reading adopted by the editor that is not found in any of the four primary editions, but sometimes in other circumstances as well.

In each note, the reading of the text is always presented first, in bold, followed by its supporting evidence; the variant reading(s) and supporting evidence follow. Because the different editions use single brackets ([]) in the text in different ways, the apparatus does not record details regarding an edition’s use of brackets in its text.