Colossians 2:23

Colossians 2:23 tapeinofrosu,nh| @kai,# {C}

A minority of the Committee preferred the reading without kai, on the basis of strong and early external evidence, and the likelihood that copyists would insert kai, on the assumption that avfeidi,a| was the third in a series of datives after evn, rather than an instrumental dative qualifying the previous prepositional phrase. On the other hand, the majority of the Committee regarded the omission as accidental and preferred the reading with kai,, which is widely supported by a A C D^gr H K P Y 33 81 614 vg syr^p cop^sa arm al. As a compromise it was decided to adopt kai, but to enclose it within square brackets. The reading tapeinofrosu,nh| tou/ noo.j kai, (G it^{b, mon, o} syr^h al) is an expansion derived probably from ver. Colossians 2:18.