Mark 10:7

7. [2150][2151][2152], Syr-Sin. omit καὶ προσκολληθήσεται … αὐτοῦ.

[2150] Codex Sinaiticus. 4th cent. Discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 at the Monastery of St Katharine on Mount Sinai. Now at St Petersburg. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1911.

[2151] Codex Vaticanus. 4th cent., but perhaps a little later than א. In the Vatican Library almost since its foundation by Pope Nicolas V., and one of its greatest treasures. The whole Gospel, ending at Mark 16:8. Photographic facsimile, 1889.

[2152] Codex Athous Laurae. 8th cent. Like N and Σ, it is written in silver letters on purple vellum. Contains Mark 9:5 to Mark 16:20, and, as in L, the shorter ending is inserted between Mark 16:8 and Mark 16:9. As in Δ, the text of Mark is specially good.

7. ἕνεκεν τούτου. In Genesis 2:24 these words refer to the making of woman out of the rib of man, which explains the almost universal fact that a man leaves his parents and clings to a wife. Here, as in 1 Corinthians 6:16 and Ephesians 5:31, this momentous fact is made an argument for monogamy. See crit. note.