human
Who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
gpt
: and it is certain that St. Paul did not write,
human
but
gpt
The reading
human
appears in no Christian writer until late in the fourth century, and in no translation of the Scriptures, earlier than the seventh or eighth century. And it is not found in any of the five great primary MSS., except as a correction made by a later scribe, who knew of the reading
gpt
God was manifested, and either preferred it to the other, or at least wished to preserve it as an alternative reading, or as an interpretation. Even so cautious and conservative a commentator as the late Bishop Wordsworth of Lincoln declares that
human
against the reading
gpt
In an old Greek MS., it would require only two small strokes to turn
human
Who into
gpt
God ; and this alteration would be a tempting one, seeing that the masculine
human
Who after the neuter