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From the Preface: The present volume is designed to serve as a companion to the fourth revised edition of the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament. One of the chief purposes of the commentary is to set forth the reasons that led the Committee, or a majority of the members of the Committee, to adopt certain variant readings for inclusion in the text and to relegate certain other...

[ἐν Ἐφέσῳ] {C} The words ἐν Ἐφέσῳ are absent from several important witnesses (𝔓46 א* B* 424c 1739) as well as from manuscripts mentioned by Basil and the text used by Origen. Certain internal features of the letter as well as Marcion’s designation of the epistle as “To the Laodiceans” and the absence in Tertullian and Ephraem of an explicit quotation of the words ἐν Ἐφέσῳ have led many commentators to suggest that the letter was intended
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