Mark 10:23 eivseleu,sontai

The Western text (D ita, b, d, ff2) has moved ver. Mark 10:25 so as to follow eivseleu,sontai (reading verses Mark 10:23, Mark 10:25, Mark 10:24, Mark 10:26). The transposition appears to be the work of the Western redactor who sought to improve the sense by making a more gradual sequence (first, it is difficult for rich people to enter the kingdom; then, it is difficult for those who trust in riches [for this addition, see the comment on ver. 24] to enter). Although some have preferred the transposed sequence, it is precisely (as Lagrange points out ad loc.) the too-logical order of the Western text that renders it suspect as a secondary modification of the more primitive text. The minuscule 235 includes ver. Mark 10:25 twice (reading verses Mark 10:23, Mark 10:25, Mark 10:24, Mark 10:25, Mark 10:26).

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