1 Corinthians 7:34

1 Corinthians 7:34 kai. meme,ristai) kai. h` gunh. h` a;gamoj kai. h` parqe,noj {D}

After considering the multiplicity of variant readings and the uncertainties of interpretation, the Committee decided that the least unsatisfactory reading is that supported by early representatives of the Alexandrian and the Western types of text (î¹⁵ B 104 vg cop^{sa, bo}). The absence of the first kai, in some witnesses (D^c F G K L Y 614 Byz) is to be accounted for either as a palaeographical oversight (after gunaiKI) or (in the case at least of D^c) as a deliberate excision in order to avoid construing h` gunh, and h` parqe,noj with a singular verb (merimna|/). Its presence is strongly supported by the combination of î^{15, 46} a A B D^{gr *} P 33 81 1739 al. The difficulty of distinguishing h` gunh. h` a;gamoj [the unmarried woman or widow] from h` parqe,noj may have led copyists to shift the adjective from gunh, to parqe,noj (D<sup>gr *</sup> and D<sup>c</sup> G K Y syr<sup>p</sup> al). The reading of î<sup>46</sup> a A 33 81 al, which have h` a;gamoj after both gunh, and parqe,noj, has the appearance of a typical scribal conflation.