A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT

Luke 20:27

Luke 20:27 oi` @avnti#le,gontej {C}

On the one hand, the external attestation for the reading oi` le,gontej is very strong, including, as it does, good representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text. On the other hand, however, this reading may have arisen from scribal assimilation to the Matthean parallel ( Matthew 22:23); it is, furthermore, the easier reading, for it avoids the double negative involved in avntile,gontej … mh,. On the basis, therefore, of transcriptional probabilities the Committee preferred avntile,gontej, but out of deference to the very much superior external attestation supporting le,gontej, it was thought best to enclose avnti within square brackets. The reading oi[tinej le,gousin is an obvious scribal correction for the pendant nominative participle.

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Luke 20:27

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