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arm; also apparently (omitting )&emsp;syr.hl.mg

(or ) (c) k

(δ)&emsp; &emsp;ACNXΔEFGHKMSUVΓΠ cu.omn.exc.8 syr.vg-hl aeth go

Here a is simple and vigorous, and it is unique in the N. T.: the peculiar initial has the terse force of many sayings as given by St Mark, but the softening into  by * shews that it might trouble scribes. In we have  deprived of its novelty by the  of Matt. ix 6 and its parallel, and of its abruptness by the previous insertion of from Matt. viii 4 and its parallels. Then follow several different but not all independent conflations of and. By the insertion of, a little modified, in the midst of the Greek form of $2$ arises; and this, with the superfluous last words removed, is the prevalent Latin reading. In one MS,, a fresh conflation supervenes, the middle clause of the Latin $2$ being replaced by , almost unaltered. Arm. (and apparently with one omission the margin of syr.hl) prefixes to $2$. The reading of (c) k is as short as, and may be derived directly from it; but is more probably delivered from its extraneous first clause by the influence of. Lastly combines  with  by substituting it for the first clause of ; a less clumsy means of avoiding the contradiction latent in the probability that the 'house' would be in the 'village' than the introduction of  in $2$. This neat combination retains without its abruptness by making it a conjunction, but involves a new contradiction unless  be taken as  by a laxity ill suited to the context. The documents attesting, it is to be observed, include the early uncials CN as well as A, and also Δ and the Syriac Vulgate.

141. Mark ix 38 (following )

(α)&emsp;&emsp; ΒΔ (?νν) &emsp;L &emsp;C cu$3$ ƒ (syr.vg-hr me aeth)

(β)&emsp;&emsp;D &emsp;a k &ensp;&emsp;1-209