The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 9

5. There is no room for "I will deny" or "-me," and the scribe evidently made some error; possibly he wrote "I will deny." "I also him" is the order of אBD; "him I also" CEFGKL.
6. "In heaven": so אCDEGKL; "in the heavens" B.
7. The insertion of "then" before "do not think" is apparently peculiar to the present text. "To bring" at the end of this line is placed after "peace" in א.
10. "Man": "son" D.
17. The conclusion of verse 37 "and he who loves... is worthy," and verse 38 "and he who does not take... is worthy," are omitted. The former of these omissions, which the repetition of "he who loves" and the homoeoteleuton the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of clauses of "worthy" made easy, occurs also in BD, and the latter in M. Cf. note on ll. 25–7.
18. The vestiges at the end of the line are very faint, but seem to suit "and" rather better than "but he" (D).
25–7. "And... will receive" is omitted in D.
28. "Little ones": "smallest" D.
29. "Cold... only": "cold water" D.
38. "Christ": "Jesus" D.
43. "To John" א.
45. D omits "and the lame walk."

1171. ST. JAMES'S EPISTLE ii-iii.

A strip from a leaf of a papyrus book, neatly written in an upright semi-cursive hand which is more likely to belong to the latter half of the third century than to the commencement of the fourth. The comma-shaped sign not infrequently used is placed after the final consonant of non-Greek names. "Spirit" original: "πνεῦμα", "Lord" original: "κύριος", and "God" original: "θεός" are contracted in the usual way, but "Father" original: "πατήρ" and "man" original: "ἄνθρωπος" are written out. If, as is probable, the lacuna at the bottom of the recto was contained in six lines, the height of the leaf was about 16 cm.

The lines were of some length, and since the point of division is quite uncertain I have not made a conjectural restoration of the gaps but only completed imperfect words. The fracture along the right-hand side of the recto, except at ll. 1 and 20, is practically straight. So far as can be judged the text was a good one, being generally in agreement with that of the Vaticanus; but there is one coincidence with C (l. 34) and one with L (l. 9) against the other more important manuscripts, besides a probable divergence from B in l. 15.

... you do well; and they shudder. Do you want, O vain man, that faith without...