Matthew 6:1

δικαιοσύνην (א*BD, 1. 209) for ἐλεημοσύνην of the receptus. ἐλεημοσύνην was doubtless a marginal explanation.

1. δικαιοσύνην for ἐλεημοσύνην. See crit. notes for the evidence for the reading. The two words were nearly synonymous with the Jews, partly because the poor had a right to share in the produce of the land; partly because almsgiving is the most natural and obvious external work of righteousness. In the same way ἀγάπη, the leading Christian virtue, has lost its original breadth of meaning and has sunk to the modern and restricted sense of ‘charity.’