1 Timothy 6:5

1 Timothy 6:5 euvse,beian {A}

After euvse,beian the Textus Receptus adds avfi,staso avpo. tw/n toiou,twn, with D^c K L P Y 061 most minuscules if^{ar, b, mon, o} syr^{p, h} goth^ms arm eth^pp Irenaeus Cyprian Ambrosiaster Speculum al. Although the reading is ancient, as appears from patristic testimony, it must be rejected as a pious but banal gloss, because (a) the best manuscripts of both the Alexandrian and the Western types of text (a A D* F G 048 33 81 88 424^c 1739 1881 it^{d, g, r} vg cop^{sa, bo} goth^ms eth^ro Origen Ambrose) support the shorter reading, and (b) if it were present originally, no good reason can be assigned for its omission.