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From the Preface: The present volume is designed to serve as a companion to the fourth revised edition of the United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament. One of the chief purposes of the commentary is to set forth the reasons that led the Committee, or a majority of the members of the Committee, to adopt certain variant readings for inclusion in the text and to relegate certain other...

Χριστοῦ [υἱοῦ θεοῦ] {C} The absence of υἱοῦ θεοῦ in א* Θ 28c al may be due to an oversight in copying, occasioned by the similarity of the endings of the nomina sacra. On the other hand, however, there was always a temptation (to which copyists often succumbed)1 to expand titles and quasi-titles of books. Since the combination of B D W al in support of υἱοῦ θεοῦ is extremely strong, it was not thought advisable to omit the words altogether, yet because of the antiquity of the shorter
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