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Galatians 5:22-23

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5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit 1  is love, 2  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 3  5:23 gentleness, and 4  self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 5:9

Context
5:9 for the fruit of the light 5  consists in 6  all goodness, righteousness, and truth –

Philippians 1:11

Context
1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

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[5:22]  1 tn That is, the fruit the Spirit produces.

[5:22]  2 sn Another way to punctuate this is “love” followed by a colon (love: joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control). It is thus possible to read the eight characteristics following “love” as defining love.

[5:22]  3 tn Or “reliability”; see BDAG 818 s.v. πίστις 1.a.

[5:23]  4 tn “And” is supplied here as a matter of English style, which normally inserts “and” between the last two elements of a list or series.

[5:9]  5 tc Several mss (Ì46 D2 Ψ Ï) have πνεύματος (pneumatos, “Spirit”) instead of φωτός (fwtos, “light”). Although most today regard φωτός as obviously original (UBS4 gives it an “A” rating), a case could be made that πνεύματος is what the author wrote. First, although this is largely a Byzantine reading (D2 often, if not normally, assimilates to the Byzantine text), Ì46 gives the reading much greater credibility. Internally, the φωτός at the end of v. 8 could have lined up above the πνεύματος in v. 9 in a scribe’s exemplar, thus occasioning dittography. (It is interesting to note that in both Ì49 and א the two instances of φωτός line up.) However, written in a contracted form, as a nomen sacrum (pMnMs) – a practice found even in the earliest mssπνεύματος would not have been easily confused with fwtos (there being only the last letter to occasion homoioteleuton rather than the last three). Further, the external evidence for φωτός is quite compelling (Ì49 א A B D* F G P 33 81 1739 1881 2464 pc latt co); it is rather doubtful that the early and widespread witnesses all mistook πνεύματος for φωτός. In addition, πνεύματος can be readily explained as harking back to Gal 5:22 (“the fruit of the Spirit”). Thus, on balance, φωτός appears to be original, giving rise to the reading πνεύματος.

[5:9]  6 tn Grk “in.” The idea is that the fruit of the light is “expressed in” or “consists of.”



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