2 Peter 3:10 — will the earth be burned up, or found out?
2 Peter 3:10 is printed as “will be found” in one reading and “will be burned up” in another. NA28 prints “will NOT be found.” through a conjectural emendation.
What the APB prints.
Every witness, on the record.
What a blind committee did here.
The APB's translation committee works blind: it is never told it is translating the Bible, never given a book name or a verse number, and it never sees the witnesses above. Whatever it did at this verse, it did on the language alone — and its record is public.
“Supplied implied subject for εὑρεθήσεται from preceding earth and works to produce grammatical English.”
The blind committee flagged the pericope for audit. Its note says, “Supplied implied subject for εὑρεθήσεται from preceding earth and works to produce grammatical English.” The APB therefore renders the clause with the earth and the works as the implied subject, while preserving the found wording in its translation.
The case for each reading.
If “found / laid bare”
Reading A, εὑρεθήσεται, is the form printed by Westcott-Hort and appears with Tregelles and NA27 in the apparatus line. The Westcott-Hort row describes the oldest uncials as reading the puzzling found. In the APB’s wording, the earth and the works in it will be found after the heavens pass away and the elements are dissolved by burning. This makes the final verb sound like disclosure or exposure rather than consumption. The phrasing is difficult enough that the packet calls it puzzling, but its attestation in the cited critical-edition line supplies a concrete case for retaining it.
If “burned up”
Reading B, κατακαήσεται, is printed by Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform. The apparatus line sets it directly against εὑρεθήσεται, and the Robinson-Pierpont row identifies it as the Byzantine text’s reading. In this form, the earth and its works are described with a verb meaning will be burned up. That reading gives the verse’s closing clause a fiery outcome consistent with the preceding mention of burning and dissolution in the APB text. The case here rests on the Byzantine majority edition’s printed text, not on a claim that the competing wording can be dismissed.
The packet records three printed outcomes for the final verb: found, burned up, and not found. It does not settle the uncertainty among them. What changes is the description of the earth and its works at the clause’s end; the APB’s surrounding statements about heavens, elements, dissolution, and holy behavior remain present.
Asked plainly.
Does 2 Peter 3:10 say the earth will be burned up or laid bare?
Both forms are printed in the supplied editions: εὑρεθήσεται means will be found, while κατακαήσεται means will be burned up. NA28 prints οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται.
Why does NA28 say not found?
Its row calls οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται a conjectural emendation, marked em in the apparatus. The packet says no Greek manuscript attests that reading.
What did the APB print at 2 Peter 3:10?
The APB prints that the earth and the works in it will be found. Its committee record says the implied subject was supplied for grammatical English.
More places where the manuscripts argue.
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