Greeks 7:4
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By no means; but in gentleness and meekness. As a king sending his son, a king, he sent him; sent him as God, as to men, as one saving, as one persuading, not forcing. For violence is not with God.[fn]
Footnotes
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as to men: some editors insert the Greek word for 'man' before 'to men,' yielding 'as man, to men.' This edition follows the manuscript reading without the insertion, on the principle that the harder reading is more likely original: an explicit statement of the incarnation would be extraordinary in a document that nowhere else mentions this doctrine. See Lienhard (1970); Marrou.