Corpus-Paul

["Revd Dr Sean F. Winter" <Sean.Winter AT virgin.net>]

Jim et al.,

I take the point about human glory and praise being derivative.  I 
wonder what you make of an intruiging textual variant in Phil. 1.11 
which has long puzzled me.

The majority reading has the final prepositional phrase EIS DOXAN KAI 
EPAINON THEOU.  But  F, G, Ambrosiaster and an old latin MS read KAI 
EPAINON MOI (cf. p46).  It seems to me that we can more easily explain a 
scribal alteration clarifying that such things are due to God, rather 
than one which takes a reference to God and refers it to Paul.

The only person, to my knowledge who adopts the harder reading as 
original is J. M. Ross in an article in NovT 25 (1983), 70.

What do folks think,  Could Paul really affirm that the Philippian's 
eschatological redemption was to his praise?

Sean F. Winter (Revd Dr)
Baptist Minister, Reading, England