1 John 3:21

1 John 3:21 h` kardi,a @h`mw/n# mh. kataginw,skh| {C}

In the following tabular arrangement the eleven different readings are subsumed under four principal readings:

On the one hand, it can be argued that reading (1) is original and that h`mw/n is a natural addition supplied by copyists in accord with the usage of the preceding verses. On the other hand, a majority of the Committee was unwilling to adopt a reading that may be the result of Alexandrian pruning (B Origen), and preferred to follow those witnesses that read h`mw/n after kardi,a, in which position the pronoun can serve also as the object of the verb. In view, however, of the general excellence of codex Vaticanus, it was thought best to enclose the pronoun within square brackets. (The reading kataginw,skw of a* is, of course, a scribal blunder, and the replacement of h`mw/n by u`mw/n in a variety of witnesses arises from the circumstance that in later Greek both words were pronounced alike.)