church history

A companion edition to “The Public Reading of Scripture”: the Greek witnesses on 1 Timothy 4:13, from Chrysostom to Theophylact, printed whole with English translation — and what they show about a word that never told anyone where it was read.

The words “public” and “of Scripture” are in every modern Bible at 1 Timothy 4:13. Neither is in Paul’s Greek — a history of the phrase, from a Wittenberg classroom in 1528 to the English Bibles of 1901–1946 to the convention floor of 2026.