Titus 2:3-5: ³the older women likewise in reverent demeanor, not tattletales, not given to much wine, teachers of what is good, ⁴so they may instruct the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands, ⁵discreet, chaste, workers at home, kind, submitting to their husbands, so that the word of God not be defamed;”
Are the older women in your church teaching the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands? Or is your church comprised of mostly older people only, or younger people only? If your older women taught the younger women how to be lovers of their husbands, would that be the blind leading the blind? Download this translation of the Bible.
Several things have happened in my life which have curtailed my translation activity. I was renting a room in an old hotel (which did not have a kitchen). The hotel got sold, and the new owners raised my rent from $680 per month to $1,000. I live on Social Security, and that was not doable. In addition, I needed a hip replacement surgery, and the room was upstairs, up some steep awkward stairs which would trip people without hip surgery.
So I moved out of that room, and am living outside in a metal shed with one side open. I tried sleeping outside, but I am in high desert in northern Nevada, and it has been 104 deg. F during the day, and by 5 am in the morning it is 55 degrees. That did not work, so I have been sleeping in my van. I set up an office in the shed, but the glare on my monitor is difficult, and there is wind and dust. In addition, the air is thick with smoke from dozens of brush fires, and I am constantly sneezing, and my eyes are always extremely itchy.
I did undergo the hip replacement, and they said it went well. Now I am also scheduled to have both my eye lenses replaced, since I was developing cataracts. Subsequent to these surgeries, I will have to go back to work in October, a paying job, because Medicare only pays for 80% of the cost of these surgeries, and my 20% copay will be a lot of money.
Here is a picture of me when I came out of the hospital after having my stitches from the hip surgery removed. I ran into my daughter Sarah Palmer, who works at the hospital, and was on her lunch break.
Announcing a new book available on Audible and Kindle: Luke and Acts. I listened to it some, and the AI voice does a surprisingly good job. Here is the link to the Audible Luke and Acts, and to the Kindle Luke and Acts.
I have published on Amazon a new book, just the works of Luke the beloved physician. That is, the gospel of Luke followed by the Acts of the Apostles. It is fairly large font, 14 point, and without footnotes. You can purchase that here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1958612154
The Translatable Textual Variants in Titus: Titus 1:4- NA29- grace and peace; Byz- grace, mercy, peace Titus 1:4 – NA29- Christ Jesus; Byz- Lord Jesus Christ Titus 1:10- TH – For there are many; BYZ, [NA29]- For indeed there are many Titus 2:5- NA29, wives are to be “workers at home”; BYZ- “stayers at home” Titus 2:7- NA29- in your teaching “integrity, dignity”; Byz- “impartiality, dignity, incorruptibility” Titus 2:8- TR- nothing bad to say about YOU; NA29, Byz- nothing bad to say about US Titus 3:1- NA29- ruling authorities; BYZ- rulers and authorities Titus 3:15- BYZ- +”Amen.” NA29- “Amen” absent
This is also to announce that I have completed my first draft of my translation of the Epistle to Titus, and you can read that with textual criticism footnotes here: https://bibletranslation.ws/trans/DRPbiblesofar.pdf
A textual variant in Acts 27:14: txt ευρακυλων “northeaster” 𝔓⁷⁴ ℵ A B* latt (cop) Chrys SBL TH NA29 {B} ‖ ευροκλυδων “southeaster wind that stirs up waves” L Pc Ψ 049 056 0142 35 94 307 1175 1611 1678 1735 1739 1891 2080 2464 𝔐 syr TR RP ‖ ευρυκλυδων “the wind that stirs up broad waves” B² 181 ‖ ευροκλυδω 81 ‖ ευρωκλυδων 93 ‖ ευρακοιδον 33 ‖ omit P* ‖ lac 𝔓⁴⁵ 𝔓¹¹² C D E H 048. The UBS commentary says that since ευρακυλων is a hybrid of a Greek word (Εὐρος – east wind) with a Latin word (Aquilo – north wind), [BDF 5(1d), 41(2); Rob. 166], later copyists did not understand that, and so came up with a variety of emendations. Observe that in v. 17, the sailors were afraid of drifting into the Syrtis sandbars, which were to the southwest of them. For this reason, the correct reading is Northeaster, because that means a wind that was coming from the northeast blowing them to the southwest. Apollonius of Rhodes in his book Argonautica describes a ship that was hit by a blast of the north wind that seized them and carried them toward Libya, where they got stranded in the Syrtis sandbars. The name Syrtis is said to be related to the word συρεσθαι, to draw, because ships were driven there against their will. The BDAG lexicon lists the following authorities: JSmith, The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul⁴ 1880, 119ff; 287ff; Hemer, Acts 141f; Warnecke, Romfart 37-39. See https://biblearchaeology.org/research-articles/why-were-the-sailors-afraid-of-the-syrtis-sands-acts-2717/
ηλθομεν “we came” 𝔓⁷⁴ ℵ A C E Ψ 33 35* 94 181 307 1175 1611 1678 1735 1739 1891 2464 latt syr cop eth geo Or Chrys Eus AN SBL TH NA29 {A}
ηλθαμεν “we came” B
οι περι τον παυλον ηλθον “those accompanying Paul came” H L P 049 93 𝔐 HF RP
οι περι τον παυλον ηλθομεν “we accompanying Paul came” 056 0142 35c 2080 TR BG
οι αποστολοι απο τυρου ηλθον “the apostles arrive from Tyre” (see 21:7) Lect (at beginning of lesson)
lac 𝔓⁴¹ D 81.
(The Antoniades text follows the shorter reading. You would rightly expect the Orthodox Antoniades to know where additions to the text are Lectionary related.) The majuscule H (014) has lectionary indications both at the top of the page and in the left margin. The minuscule 2080 has the lectionary beginning notation right in the text. See images below.
The minuscule 2080 has the “beginning” notation right in the text:
The majuscule H (014) has the “beginning” notation in the left margin:
