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Rh illustrates another kind of combination, in which part of a longer reading is replaced by the whole of the shorter reading: for or  (implied in the Latin reading ' [v. 1. '])  has, while two or three other documents retain both verbs. In 1 Cor. i 8 the Latin Vulgate effects the combination by making the one element dependent on the other, changing the Old Latin ' into ' by incorporating the Greek reading. Bold conflations, of various types, are peculiarly frequent in the Æthiopic version, at least in the extant MSS.

134. We now proceed to conflate readings involving important groups of documents, premising that we do not attempt to notice every petty variant in the passages cited, for fear of confusing the substantial evidence.

Mark vi 33 (following )