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John 5
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john.5.onlyGod5
τοῦ μόνου θεοῦ / τοῦ μόνου
TEXTTRANSLATIONmoderate confidence
From whom does the singular glory come?
Most witnesses explicitly read ‘the only God’; a significant early reading has simply ‘the only one,’ leaving God implicit.
Why this default
“From the only God” is default because the explicit theou reading is broadly attested and produces a clear contrast between glory received from one another and glory sought from God. The shorter “from the only one” has significant early support and remains open rather than being silently absorbed.
Evidence
ExternalMost surviving witnesses explicitly include θεοῦ, while an important early stream omits the noun and leaves “the only one” as the written expression.
InternalEither omission of a short familiar noun or expansion to clarify the implied referent is plausible, so the shorter reading remains a genuine open textual decision.
Project defaultfrom the only God
Project default · broadly attested wording
Witnessesθεοῦ included · broad Greek manuscript supportAlternativefrom the only one
Important shorter reading
Witnessesθεοῦ omitted · important early supportAlternativefrom the only [God/one]
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