Luke 2:14 — peace on earth, good will toward whom?
Luke 2:14 has readings εὐδοκίας, among people of good pleasure, and εὐδοκία, good will toward men. The difference is one final sigma in the angels' song.
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.
The record supplies no rationale note matching this crux. Its pericope audit verdict is "clean." The APB prints Luke 2:14 with peace on earth among people of goodwill, within the supplied wording of Luke 2:13–15.
The case for each reading.
If “of his good pleasure”
Reading A is εὐδοκίας, presented in the packet as of good pleasure (genitive) and as peace among people of good pleasure. Nestle-Aland 28 supports this reading. The witness summary adds that the critical editions read the genitive, with the oldest uncials' first hands. The raw apparatus line also places εὐδοκίας on one side of the variation.
On this reading, the final sigma gives the phrase a relationship of possession or characterization: peace is described as being among people of (his) good pleasure. The case for A rests on that genitive form and on the witness information supplied for it.
If “good will toward men”
Reading B is εὐδοκία, presented as good will toward men. Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform supports this reading and is identified in the packet as a Byzantine majority edition, 2005. The witness summary says that the Byzantine text sings this version, while the raw apparatus line places εὐδοκία opposite εὐδοκίας.
On this reading, the final sigma is absent, and the wording is framed as good will toward men rather than peace among people of good pleasure. The case for B therefore turns on its nominative form and on the Byzantine majority edition named in the supplied evidence.
The supplied material identifies a one-letter difference and gives support for each form, but it does not resolve the variation. What changes is the phrasing of peace and goodwill in Luke 2:14. No wider doctrinal conclusion is established by the supplied evidence alone, and the packet identifies no doctrine that hinges on this final sigma.
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Witness readings for critical editions are quoted from the SBLGNT apparatus (CC BY 4.0); Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible). Readings of ancient manuscripts and versions are cited as published scholarly fact with their sources linked above. Nothing on this page declares a winner — the evidence is the point.
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