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Acts 25

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acts.25.ac25DestructionAddition

εἰς ἀπώλειαν

TEXThigh confidence

Does Festus explicitly say ‘hand over a person to destruction’?

The disputed words would name destruction as the explicit destination or consequence of the judicial surrender.

Why this default

The empty default follows early diverse witnesses; ‘to destruction’ explicitly supplies a consequence already implied by surrender.

Evidence

ExternalThe shorter reading is supported by P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 81, 1175 and 1739. The added phrase appears in E, Ψ and the later Byzantine tradition.

InternalBecause Paul faced a potentially capital outcome, a clarifying object was readily supplied. Broad early deletion of the phrase is less likely.

Project defaultOmit

Project default

WitnessesNo destruction phrase · P74, א, A, B, C, 33, 81, 1175, 1739
Alternative to destruction

Later addition

WitnessesTo destruction · E, Ψ, later Byzantine tradition
Alternative [to destruction]

Variant visibly bracketed

WitnessesTo destruction · variant visibly bracketed

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Revision historyNo decision-level revision has been recorded since the provenance ledger was introduced.

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