Luke 18:24 auvto.n o` VIhsou/j @peri,lupon geno,menon# ei=pen {C}

On the one hand, the excellent attestation for the shorter text (a B L ¦1 1241 al) and the variety of positions of peri,lupon geno,menon suggest that the words were introduced by copyists, perhaps from ver. Luke 18:23 (peri,lupoj evgenh,qh). On the other hand, since Luke’s penchant of repeating a word or phrase in adjacent passages 16 may have operated here, a majority of the Committee did not feel at liberty to omit the phrase entirely, but enclosed it within square brackets.


16 See H. J. Cadbury, “Four Features of Lucan Style,” Studies in Luke-Acts, ed. by Leander E. Keck and J. Louis Martyn (New York, 1966), pp. 87—102.

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