The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part 11

31. Read "be established". The supplement is of full length and the reading of A, "that is", would be quite suitable. The epsilon of "but" may of course have been elided.
32. Read "be mutually comforted"; cf. line 21.
34. Whether the papyrus had "I do not want" or "I do not consider" in D*, G cannot be determined.
41. codex G omits "to you who are in Rome".
42. It seems likely enough on considerations of space that the terminal "-ai" was written as epsilon once or even twice in the lacuna.

1355. EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS viii.

The following fragments of a leaf from a papyrus book are in an upright informal hand of much the same character as 1171, though smaller in size; it may be assigned with probability to the third century. A paragraphus below line 53 is the only form of stop, and no other signs occur except the diaeresis. God and Spirit certainly were contracted, and that the other ordinary abbreviations were used may be inferred with security from the spacing. A correction by a second hand is found in line 17.
Unfortunately the leaf is badly mutilated, the loss of more than half of every line depriving it of much of its value for critical purposes. The text appears to have been of good quality, showing, like 1171, a general agreement with the Codex Vaticanus, from which the two definite divergences are the avoidance of the vulgar spelling "upon" in line 16, and an illegible reading in line 17, where the unknown variant "is freed from" for "shall be freed from" has been inserted by the corrector.

. . . . . . . . not to the flesh Romans 8:12
[of living according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh] you will
[die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body]
[you will live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God]
[these are sons of God. For you did not receive a Spirit of bondage]
[again to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by]
[which we cry out, "Abba, Father". The Spirit himself bears witness]
[with our Spirit that we are children of God; and if children,]
[then heirs, heirs indeed of God and joint-heirs]
[with Christ, if indeed we suffer together] that we may also be glorified together