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The figurative language of α is replaced in β by a simply descriptive paraphrase, just as in the preceding sentence the chief documents that attest β change to  and  to : and in the second or Latin form of β&ensp; becomes  in conformity with Matt. xii 10; Mark iii 2. In δ both phrases are kept, the descriptive being used to explain the figurative: the now superfluous middle part of β however is dropped, and is transposed to ease the infinitive. Again the documents of δ include ACX, both Vulgates, and a later version. Besides the readings of some good cursives and of the Armenian, in which the influence of α and of β respectively leads to some curtailment of δ, f presents an interesting secondary conflation, the last phrase of which is derived with a neat transposition from the earliest form of β, whereas the β used in δ is the second form, no longer separately extant in Greek.

145. Luke xii 18 (after ) For the rather peculiar combination of and  the single general term, common in the LXX and Apocrypha, is substituted by β, the precise combination  being indeed found in Ex. xxiii 10; Lev. xxv 20; Jer. viii 13: some documents have the similar from v. 17. In δ the full double form of α is retained, but the plural replaces  in accordance with the plural. Another form of conflation of a and β appears in 346. Besides AQ and Cyril, δ has, as in Mark ix 49, the Vulgate Syriac and the Italian and Vulgate Latin in addition to the Harklean Syriac versions: both * and D support β.