Abbreviations Used in the Notes

ECM Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior, ed. The Institute for New Testament Textual Research, vol. 4: Catholic Letters, ed. Barbara Aland, Kurt Aland, Gerd Mink, Holger Strutwolf, and Klaus Wachtel (4 installments; Stuttgart: Deutsche Biblegesellschaft, 1997–2005): inst. 1: James (1997; 2nd rev. impr., 1998); inst. 2: The Letters of Peter (2000); inst. 3: The First Letter of John (2003); inst. 4: The Second and Third Letter of John, The Letter of Jude (2005).

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Greeven Indicates a reading printed as the text by Heinrich Greeven in Albert Huck, Synopse der drei ersten Evangelien/Synopsis of the First Three Gospels (13th ed. fundamentally revised by Heinrich Greeven; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), 1981).

Holmes Indicates a reading preferred by the editor that is not found in any of the four primary editions.

NA Represents the NA26–27/UBS3–4 editions, which all print the identical Greek text. NA is explicitly cited only when it differs from NIV.

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

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).

TR Textus Receptus (“Received Text”). The phrase technically designates the edition of the Greek New Testament printed by the Elziver Brothers in 1633; in generic use it can designate not only the Elziver text but also its precursors (Erasmus, Stephanus, and Beza) or any similar text.20

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).

Tregmarg Indicates a reading printed by Tregelles in the margin of his edition.

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).

WHapp Indicates a reading discussed by WH in the Appendix to their edition (in vol. 2).

WHmarg Indicates an alternative reading printed by WH in the margin of their edition.