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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...

witnesses, attest the plural number. (Several minor variant readings occur within the verse: D* and ita omit οἵ, thus leaving the verse without grammatical connection with the preceding sentence; other variants in the verse are mentioned in the following entry.) Although a number of modern scholars (including Zahn, Resch, Blass, Loisy, R. Seeburg, Burney, Büchsel, Boismard, Dupont, and F. M. Braun)3 have argued for the originality of the singular number, it appeared to the Committee that, on
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