Nestle Aland 25 read with 01 A C L Delta 33 892 1241 1424 lat sy:
OU GAR ESTIN TI KRUPTON EAN MH HINA .....
N-Aland 26/27 reads with B D K Thet Fam 1&13 28 565 579 700 2427 2542 it co:
OU GAR ESTIN KRUPTON EAN MH HINA....
Codex Freerianus (W) reads:
OUDEN GAR ESTIN KRUPTON EAN MH HINA...
The parallel text in Luke 8: 17 reads:
OU GAR ESTIN KRUPTON HO .....
My question:
is the reading in the latest editions of Nestle-Aland, and offered by some of
the best manuscripts (B etc) grammatically correct?
I mean: isn't the reading of W to be regarded as the correction of a scribe
who thought that the reading of B etc was defective by lack of a subject?
Luke 8:17 poses no problem, I think, because of the fact that the EAN MH HINA
clause is dropped.
By the way: Mt 10:26 reads:
OUDEN GAR ESTIN KEKALUMMENON HO .....
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