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SBL Greek New Testament

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Acts 23

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acts.23.ac23Farewell

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TEXThigh confidence

Does the letter include a closing farewell?

Including the word would give Claudius Lysias’s letter a standard closing formula before the narration resumes.

Why this default

The farewell is absent from the earliest witnesses and is a conventional epistolary addition.

Evidence

ExternalThe shorter ending is supported by P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 1739 and early versions. ‘Farewell’ appears in E and the later Byzantine tradition.

InternalA copyist could naturally complete the letter with the standard greeting; there is little reason for diverse early witnesses to remove it.

Project defaultOmit

Project default

WitnessesNo farewell · P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 1739, early versions
Alternative. Farewell

Later addition

WitnessesFarewell · E, later Byzantine tradition
Alternative. Be well

Responsible alternative

WitnessesBe well · idiomatic rendering

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