31:18 May lying lips be silenced –
lips 1 that speak defiantly against the innocent 2
with arrogance and contempt!
5:11 “Blessed are you when people 3 insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely 4 on account of me.
1 tn Heb “the [ones which].”
2 tn Or “godly.”
3 tn Grk “when they insult you.” The third person pronoun (here implied in the verb ὀνειδίσωσιν [ojneidiswsin]) has no specific referent, but refers to people in general.
4 tc Although ψευδόμενοι (yeudomenoi, “bearing witness falsely”) could be a motivated reading, clarifying that the disciples are unjustly persecuted, its lack in only D it sys Tert does not help its case. Since the Western text is known for numerous free alterations, without corroborative evidence the shorter reading must be judged as secondary.
5 tn Or “insulting.” Luke uses a strong word here; it means “to revile, to defame, to blaspheme” (L&N 33.400).